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Commemorative cannon fire disrupted class

Students and faculty should have been warned about cannon salute

Last Wednesday, I almost ran out of my class. Numerous deafening explosions caused the building and windows in Orson Spencer Hall to shake while dramatically silencing the class discussion at hand.

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Health care should include abortion

The long-awaited health care reform bill that passed in the House of Representatives on Saturday night, marks a milestone for President Barack Obama’s administration push to regulate health care in the United States. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic speaker of the House, compared the bill’s historic passage to creating Social Security. However, one component of the bill remains up for grabs: the hotly contested Stupak-Pitts Amendment.

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Business ranking sets U at the top

Most of us are going to school hoping that an education will help us successfully compete in the workforce upon graduation. The stress and pressure of making good grades, studying late into the night to ace a test and developing lifelong friendships is all part of the college experience.

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Job market scary for grads

Unemployment casts shadow on the future

Things are looking bleaker than ever on Main Street, and it has nothing to do with the City Creek Center construction project.

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Happiness, depression coincide in Utah

Would you consider yourself a happy or sad person? If you’re living in Utah, recent studies have found you should be both. Utah has been ranked on a national scale for being the state with the highest rate of happiness as well as depression. So what’s going on in the Beehive State?

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LDS support of gay rights refreshing

Proposition 8 put The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into a lose-lose situation.

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Student group sites a good investment

Web pages are effective, reasonable

The Associated Students of the University of Utah has made some dubious spending decisions in the past. Most of these stem from ill-conceived notions about what students want and what is best for the school. Thus we are subject to the whims of students playing grown-up with little to no accountability.

Campus Debate

How should the U react to PETA’s complaints?

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Credibility of animal-rights organization questionable

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a Virginia-based organization famous for its showmanship and claims to principled, high morals in what its website calls protection of “animal rights.” Animals, in its estimation, deserve all legal and social protections afforded to humans.

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U should take responsibility for its actions in research labs

I was a destructive child. Never one to sit in the basement playing video games, I was more content blowing up plastic Army men and jumping off buildings. But whenever my antics got out of hand, my parents forced me to take responsibility. I still remember taking money to the house of a neighbor whose window I had intentionally broken with a rock. So yeah, I learned responsibility early on, but perhaps the U’s administrators need a refresher course.

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The Chronicle's View

House Editorals

Education can’t survive more cuts

During the past year, the Utah State Legislature has been hesitant to subsidize budget cuts in higher education with the surplus Rainy Day Fund. Lawmakers might be right—it isn’t raining at the U; the sky is falling.

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Campaign limit makes ASUU fair

In past years, campaigning for leadership of the Associated Students of the University of Utah has cost aspiring students $10,000 and a sizable number of posters, banners and hot dogs. If ASUU President Tayler Clough has anything to say about it, some campaigning practices are about to change.

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Past House Editorials

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Research labs create a moral dilemma

Judge should have allowed DeChristopher’s defense

TCU photo distasteful

Animal research not a medical necessity

U needs to stop animal abuse

Chronicle should help writers build skills

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Campus Voices

Campus Voices

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Innovation replaces service

Library’s new system puts ‘vision’ over experience

Until I retired this past July, I was a reference librarian in the Marriott Library. With so much being made of the massive reconstruction project that recently ended, I thought it might be useful for students and faculty to be apprised of the internal changes to the organization that might prove to be more significant than all of that new masonry and glass.

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No reason not to get H1N1 vaccine

As a health educator at the U, it is my job to make sure that students are in a state of wellness so they can attend class, stay healthy and graduate on time. With this in mind, I have recently been asked many questions concerning the H1N1 vaccination.

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Greek Row, neighbors finally communicate

The greek community has received a fair amount of media coverage since school started. So far, articles on vandalism, the new city council noise ordinance and the sanctions placed on Pi Kappa Alpha have mostly defined campus perception of Greek Row. Although this is unfortunate, it is apparent that we still are not talking enough about the real issue in the greek community: neighborhood relations. In fact, this key issue is responsible for almost all of the conflict on Greek Row during the past 10 months.

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Past guest columns

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