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Lessons from the DPS gun decision: Listen to minority students

University President Joel Seligman’s decision to arm 42 Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers is a disappointing one. Read More

Cheers and jeers: Mel Weekend edition

Jeers to whichever students (or alumni!) stole the “R” from the gigantic M-E-L-I-O-R-A on the Eastman Quad. Read More

Reject the gun recommendation

Seligman should certainly not accept the recommendation as it now stands, and it must be subjected to careful fact-checking if he is to consider it at all. Read More

Gun plan isn’t bulletproof

The final decision on the matter remains for Seligman to make, but the proposal, for all its flaws, is a good one. Read More

Learn from Lam Square

What, exactly, is the point of all those tablets, apart from serving as autograph books and doodle pads? Are they just advertisements? Read More

Cheers and Jeers for the new year

Cheers to the new swingset in the grassy bowl behind Rush Rhees Library. Read More

A call for decorum in the DPS gun debate

These people are not stupid. They are not out to bilk students out of their money, to make them feel unsafe, or to operate in secrecy in order to sneak possibly objectionable measures under their noses. Read More
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A clinical response

The Editorial Board commends the University on its robust response to the recent outbreak of Norovirus within the campus community. Read More

Martino’s and Floto’s SA

The Editorial Board congratulates juniors Vito Martino and Lance Floto on becoming Students’ Association (SA) President and Vice President. Having endorsed them, we are pleased to see that the candidates we believed to be best for the position will now hold office. Read More

SA presidential debate disappoints

None of the candidates distinguished themselves as frontrunners, and we left the debate with scant confidence in any of the tickets. Read More
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