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Letter to the Community

Our health care offer is consistent with the university's commitment to offer comprehensive health-care benefits designed to promote and sustain good health for all of its employees and their families. 

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American Public Goes Unrepresented in the Oscars

The people in the Academy are predominantly white, male and above the age of 50, meaning that the movies they choose often reflect the values and cultural biases of that demographic. I am not represented by this demographic, nor is most of our Santa Clara community or a good portion of the American public.

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Student Support for Facilities Laborers

Santa Clara facilities workers are part of our campus community, they are employed by the university and many of them have been working here for 20 years or more. There is no reason why they should be receiving lesser treatment or respect, they are just as much a part of our community.

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In Defense of Chivalry

When it comes to chivalry, intention is everything. If you go out of your way for a girl because you sincerely find her incapable of doing things for herself (which I hope most guys don't truly believe), she will pick up on that. And if a girl is feeling chivalrous and wants to walk a guy home, this should be acceptable.

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Reality Television Degrading?

With the opportunity to enrich our lives with such a variety of engaging and thought-provoking literature and media, we choose fist pumping and slang talking, cat fighting and name calling, "Jersey Shore" and the "Bachelor." If this is the direction American values are headed, I really hope the Mayans got their numerology right.

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The Freedom to Smoke

The only reasonable way a non-smoker is going to be exposed to significant smoke today is for a brief moment as he or she passes a smoker on the way to class. The notion that this requires a campus-wide smoking ban is baffling.

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