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American dream for all

The Dream Act would provide deserving people the opportunity to serve the place they call home, or better themselves with an education. In my mind it is a no brainer that it should be passed.  In the end, the real question is, and should be: Illegal immigrants, are you SURE you want to live with us?

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Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara

Anybody, regardless of major, can be an entrepreneur. Just ask Andrew Mason, the music major who started Groupon.com. All it takes is passion, devotion, and hard work. Use the resources given to you and you just may find yourself ahead of the game in the business world.

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We've got spirit... sort of

The amount of school spirit displayed around the time of the game was amazing. I was so excited to see my fellow peers enthusiastically supporting their team, wearing the Ruff Rider shirt with pride, and even shouting "We Bucked the Zags!" at 3 a.m. outside my window. However, that Saturday, a mere two days after we beat Gonzaga, when the men's basketball team played Portland, there were barely any students in attendance.

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Long distance relationship advice for freshmen in need

I don't claim to be an expert by any means — Heck, I haven't been doing it for that long — but I would like to imagine that the coping strategies I've stumbled upon in an attempt to maintain my sanity in my long term relationship, might just be helpful for the other strong yet foolish individuals who have decided to traverse the great wilderness that is long-distance relationships.

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We must pay attention to Tunisia

In a story largely ignored by the American media, a long-standing and corrupt foreign leader was overthrown by the people of his country.

While military-initiated coups are nothing new for Africa, the recent protests in Tunisia are a definite sign of the times, with Facebook, WikiLeaks and YouTube all playing pivotal roles in a country dominated by young people.

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Discovery Channel Special: Grinding college students

There is a certain type of wild animal that has an extremely widespread and peculiar mating dance.  

This dance is performed mostly by the young adults of the species once they hit puberty, but some continue this dance well past their prime. It basically consists of the female and male, (though sometimes male and male, female and female, etc.) pantomiming sexual acts; while many of their peers observe and perform the ritual themselves.

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Ethnic Studies disappears

House Bill 2281, which took effect December 31, bans schools in Arizona from offering courses that "promote resentment toward a race or class of people" or "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals." According to Tom Horne, state superintendent of public instruction and author of HB 2281, the bill was written to target the Mexican American studies programs in the Tucson school system.

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Response to MLK Night

I've always enjoyed MLK night, a night of live entertainment, thought-provoking skits, and watching friends perform their work. Yet, as the poems, songs and skits set in, I couldn't help but think, this is not what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted.

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Hablas español? Nope

Nicholas D. Kirstoff put it best in a recent New York Times piece: "If a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and one who speaks four languages is quadrilingual, what is someone called who speaks no foreign languages at all?"

Answer: an American.

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Santa Clara and morality

SCU does an excellent job preaching the Gospel message about our obligation to care for the poor.  This legitimate message of compassion needs to be heard.  But not once during my time at SCU did I hear SCU explicitly promote the core Catholic belief in the right to life of the unborn. 

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The Fall of Big-Box Bookstores: Nostalgia or Acceptance?

For the first time in decades, a bookstore will not lie on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Borders, the big-box bookstore chain, recently decided to close its doors in the most popular shopping district in the Windy City.

That's right, one of the biggest cities in America lacks a bookstore on its most famous retail street.

After looking further into Borders' situation, it is apparent that the company is facing dire times

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