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Campus Voice: Living in resistance

February 28, 2013

I felt shock, sadness and a strong sense of helplessness when I tuned into WPSD Local 6 on Tuesday, Feb. 12, and heard the news about the racist parody...

Campus Voice: No room for intolerance at Murray State

February 14, 2013

Recent incidents have caused us to reflect on how to handle issues of race and intolerance on campus. The recent use of Twitter to promote bigotry and...

Campus Voice: Women need to be taken seriously

November 15, 2012

Everyone knows that women can’t drive … … When they aren’t in a car. Otherwise, they are provided that same opportunity to earn their license....

Campus Voice: On science, secularism, chuckling

November 8, 2012

One occasionally comes across a deposit of such misunderstanding and bad logic, coupled with sweeping hauteur and spin-doctoring, that it merits not a...

Campus Voice: Faith, religion have important role to play

October 25, 2012

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, writing for the majority in the 1962 case Engel v. Vitale, said “the history of man is inseparable with the history...

Campus voice: Facts, not faith should dominate decisions made in D.C.

October 18, 2012

P.Z. Myers, a prominent and outspoken speaker and blogger in the rapidly growing secular non-belief movement gave a rousing and informative lecture on...

Campus voice: As times change, so do challenges

October 11, 2012

When I was asked by The News to write a column regarding the current presidential campaign, my first thought was the line “Fools rush in where angels...

Murray politics matter

October 11, 2012

Last semester, the city of Murray moved forward with a decision requiring Murray State students to purchase city stickers for their vehicles. The cost...

Campus Voice: Candidates need to be transparent, too

September 27, 2012

The looming presidential election on Nov. 6 has been a contest of mudslinging and the avoidance of political rhetoric. In putting the cantankerous campaigns...

Campus Voice: In defense of the right to choose

September 6, 2012

Abortion. The mere utterance of that word makes anyone uncomfortable. Or is it the beginning of a crude joke? The idea of abortion to some is absolutely...

Campus Voice: Evolution on trial in Kentucky

August 30, 2012

Our rapidly increasing and accessible scientific knowledge is encroaching further upon religious claims about how our world works. The recent flap in...

Interpreting the Constitution as it is intended

August 23, 2012

I don’t claim to be smarter or more insightful than any of the current Supreme Court Justices. Nor do I pretend to fully grasp the nuances of legal theory....

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