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March 15 kicked off Sunshine Week to raise awareness of freedom of information, but it seems its efforts often go unanswered since student journalists are still being denied access to information here at MCLA and around the country.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records, is sometimes used to deny access to Public Safety logs.
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The trend of praising the vices of sexuality continues. By now everyone knows the details when it comes to Eliot Spitzer. Since the Bill Clinton escapade, it's not altogether stunning to find sex scandals in politics. It is sad and pathetic, yes, that these men have used their positions and access to money to use it towards such vices.
This week's topic: Amidst the Democratic split, who will get the nod
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Cassandra: While preferring neither in all honesty, since I am so obliged to choose the Democratic presidential candidate I feel stands a better chance of coming out of the nomination process alive, I'd have to say Barak Obama.
It's no secret the Democratic Party is shooting itself in the foot, as it's now officially spring and there remains such a clear division over the nomination.
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The Iraq war: Five years in and 4,000 dead. Nice that those two milestones coincided so well.
Really, what do these figures mean? Nothing in the absolute. Unfortunately, there is no set time when a cosmic egg timer goes off telling us war is over (if we want it), or a fixed point where the death toll rolls over to zero like a 1980s arcade game.
Nothing to do? Open your eyes
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To the Editor:
It has been brought to my attention that students believe there is nothing to do on campus.
This is completely untrue. Every day there is an event happening here. Now this event might not be a band, speaker, or something really exciting, but it is something to do.
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Research assistants are needed to collect children's language samples.
If you work frequently with pre-teens now or during the summer - as a teacher's aide, a babysitter, recreation leader, or at a summer camp - you could earn up to 3 hours of academic credit (PY 397) for collecting speech samples.
How would you feel about seeing police logs published in The Beacon?
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"I think it would be a good idea to include the North Adams police logs and not just the campus. I also do not think names should be included, but it is a good idea for us to know what's going on.
-- James DePina, '11
"I wouldn't have a problem with it.
