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Our View: Significant changes and improvements need to be made to COAS's Educational Advisory Center.
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Our View: The administration's lack of transparency, in general, hinders both our college experiences and the progress of our university.
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Our View: It is important to have independent black media outlets to tell our stories in the way that we think they should be told.
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Our View: Student elections at Howard are a great time to bring about change at Howard, but only if candidates are truly committed to working and not simply to winning.
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Our View: President Obama's upcoming State of the Union address will contain important information for us as students, current and future employment seekers, and citizens.
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Our View: Speaker O'Neal's actions were unacceptable and he should not be allowed to remain in office.
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Our View: The Maryland lawsuit is an important step toward preserving, improving, and defending its historically black colleges that could possibly benefit students at all HBCUs.
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Our View: The Hilltop staff works very hard to bring you the best paper that we possibly can. We know that there is room for improvement, but that is not possible without your help.
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Our View: It's great that Black girls know that we rock, but it is important that we also know that the many reasons why have to do with much more than just our physical appearances.
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Our View: The tragedy at Penn State is a shameful example of what happens when people do not take an active stance against wrongdoing.
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Our View: Children should not have to suffer the consequences of the politics of immigration policy.
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Our View: It is always important to remember the needs of one's own citizens, but in an increasingly global world, it is also important to acknowledge that everyone who needs charity deserves it.
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Our View: Animals deserve to be treated humanely, but equating exhibits displaying wild life to slavery is extreme.
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Our View: These latest examples in the never-ending saga of minorities versus the police continue to demonstrate the destructive effects of professional corruption and mutual distrust.
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Our View: Cyber-bullying between children is wrong, but adults making fun of children who make bad decisions is worse.
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Our View: Bullying and harassment of any kind is unacceptable and should be stopped, but it is equally as important for victims of bullying to develop healthy and constructive ways to respond.
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Our View: While we appreciate celebrities who actually attempt to be positive role models, in many ways, the celebrity self-help market is yet another way to capitalize on both the devotion and emotions of fans.
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To call the university “horrible” is to unnecessarily insult thousands of students, faculty, and staff members, and countless alumni who work hard and have made amazing contributions to Howard’s legacy, as well as to its present. With that said “Horrible University” is a gross and unnecessary exaggeration. Detractors aside, Howard is, was, and has been “the real HU” since 1867, and it always will be.
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For the first time in almost a century, the FBI is taking steps to address the ambiguity surrounding sexual assault cases by working to expand the federal definition of rape.
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Our View: Occupy Wall Street is the class-inspired realization of the limits of opportunity and access in American society.
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Our View: As much as we may not appreciate their current "happy music", we cannot stifle their personal or artistic growth.
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As future world leaders, it our right and our responsibility to make our voices heard. Legal and academic censorship contradicts the purpose of education by making dissent unnecessarily difficult.
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No one can diminish the sacrifice of our veterans and soldiers. Respect, gratitude and appreciation for their willingness to risk their lives is a given, whether or not we always support the orders behind those risks, but that respect is not necessarily directly tied to the words of the pledge of allegiance.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has come to the defense of community college students in Missouri who were facing mandatory drug testing in order to attend school.
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Many people have praised the Ohio governor for his leniency, but justice has still not been served.
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Our View: The international community must come together to do whatever it can to help resolve the humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia.
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It was a Tuesday morning that rocked our elementary and middle school lives, changing the focus of our geography lessons from the West to the Middle East and permanently etching a new "t-word" into our vocabularies.
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Our View: Racism in advertising persists because Black consumerism continues to support it.
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Our View: While Libya has taken one important step towards its political future, a lot more remains to be seen to ensure that it can achieve the complete liberation that its citizens desire and deserve.
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Our View: The changes that are taking place are a long time coming, and are beneficial to Howard students as a whole, but in order for them to be the most effective, students need to be involved and well-informed.
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We have been working short-staffed and underpaid for too long without having our concerns properly addressed, and now we have decided to speak out.
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Our View: Significant changes and improvements need to be made to COAS's Educational Advisory Center.
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Press $ to Speak to a Real Person
In the State of the Union address President Obama recently delivered, he took the time to criticize the Supreme Court's Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission decision.
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Our culture does not consist of what was mentioned in earlier Hilltop ads.
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Love, Peace, & Soul
Black artists and musicians paved the way for civil rights and mainstream acceptance just as much, and in many ways more, than every activist and attorney who marched.
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The culture of Howard is one of individualism that stems from competition over scarce resources.
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Black Student Abolitionism
If the current generation is to pick up the torch of abolitionism similar to Garnet, Copeland, and SNYC members, they must reject American individualism, consumerism, and celebrity culture.
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Are You in Search of Social Status?
As you prepare for intake and elections, it might be good for prospects not to tie so much of their identity into the possibility of pledging.
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In the spirit of accumulating such perspectives which might aid this institution in moving forward, I would like to share my struggles as a graduate student, as well as those of my colleagues.
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Remix the Ratio
Stop buying into the hype of the ratio and believing that there is nothing to gain by being serious with one girl.
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A Bad Defense is the Worst Offense
I will admit I had to edit this article for my own safety. I recently went food shopping and that qualifies me as a terrorist. Sounds absurd, right? Don't openly agree. You might be detained. I know this all sounds insane, but the recent authorization of the National Defense Authorization Act makes this a feasible scenario.
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We Are Not Our Own Worst Enemy
A few days after Christmas, the blogosphere and social media sites were abuzz with images and news articles of working class Black people buying and even fighting over newly released Air Jordan sneakers.
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Is Celeb-reality Changing the Face of Black Love?
Although these are just small examples of a shift in the portrayal of black love and relationships, it is necessary to note that the images are at least changing somewhat.
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We see the words recession, bailout and debt in the papers every day, describing our country's financial state, but these same terms can also be applied to our personal finances.
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You Can't Be a Happy Hater
Something women have not realized that if we decided to celebrate, support, compliment and encourage each other, we would be so much better off.
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Bringing our way of thinking to light
Kanye spoke for all of us when he said, "We're all self-conscious; I'm just the first to admit it."
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The Letter of the Law
In light of the spirit of protest and change that appears to be sweeping our nation at the moment, I decided to highlight some ways in which our representatives on Capitol Hill are attempting to create more justice in the system.
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That Awkward Moment When...
No one wants to think that he or she could allow children to be abused without reporting it to the police, but how often do we walk past people in distress because we don't want to get involved?
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With skyrocketing tuition costs, student loans have helped to create a new class of indentured servants.
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Live, Right Now!
It breaks my heart, and sometimes my spirit, to know that so many of you have considered suicide.
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If This Isn't Love...
Adding to the list of failed attempts at love and fake romances is our favorite pillow- biter Kim Kardashian! Reports have circulated that her and recent Hubby Kris Humphries are calling it quits!
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Uncle Thomas
Clarence Thomas is not new to controversy.
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When Herman Cain uttered these words, few people could have predicted the ensuing parallels between the Republican presidential candidate and the controversial Supreme Court Justice. Both are black republicans.
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I am asking everyone who reads this to critically analyze the concept of the Devil as the origin of evil.
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Scared Straight
We’ve become experts at creating diversions to cope with and escape from our realities, but what would happen if we were just as passionate and creative about facing the horrors that exist in the world around us?
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"When will Dark Women be in Style?"
I believe that the color complex represents the internalization of false ideology.
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The case of Marshall “Eddie” Conway is one of the longest-running political prisoner cases in the United States of America and on Nov. 1, Mr. Conway is set for a parole board hearing.
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When Will Dark Women Be in Style?
I long for the day when I am at Park on Thursday with my friends and I hear, "I like ‘em dark-skinned, thick, dreads strong" or "I'm looking for a midnight, nappy haired star."
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Why Bison Should Care About the Congressional Budget
Austin Edwards is a senior, political science major from Trenton, New Jersey.
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Herman Cain: Hazard of a ‘post-black’ era
In his quest to be the black republican token who removes race as a factor in the election and challenges President Obama, Cain is just one example of the hazards of a post-black era.
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Support the Pelican Bay Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
At the end of the day, in disproportionate numbers, these are OUR people. Let us never forget our own that are trapped in the belly of the beast.
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Please, Don't Call It a Comeback
It's bad enough that anybody expecting to go to a Beyonce concert in the near future will have to wait until further notice, but Ashanti has the audacity to try to capitalize on that inconvenience by releasing two singles at the same time!
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The Racial Roots of Campus Policing
Benjamin Woods is a graduate student in political science from Oklahoma City, OK.
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Don't Smash the Homies
There are great guys out there, but sometimes we ruin them, and sometimes we ruin ourselves by not making smart choices.
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Class versus Warfare
For anyone wondering if I think we should get a time machine too, no, this is not the 1960s. It's 2011, but it is still real out here in these streets, especially if you're Black. Theory is wonderful, but our education is incomplete if classes don't prepare us for the warfare that we are bound to encounter.
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Are All Men Dogs?
He Said.... "Basically, you let the dog be a dog and accept it as such. And what do you get in return? That dog becomes your best friend, willing to scrap for you if you're in danger, sit with you when you're sad, cheer you up and lick all over you." She Said... " All dogs, like men, need training. They need to be taught what to chew on, what not to, what is a toy and meant to be played with, where to dump and where not to dump and what will result in consequence."
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Fabolous vs. Ray-J
ATTENTION! Ladies and gentlemen, we have beef! And I don't mean the McDonald's on Georgia Ave.
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Press $ to Speak to a Real Person
In the State of the Union address President Obama recently delivered, he took the time to criticize the Supreme Court's Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission decision.
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Our culture does not consist of what was mentioned in earlier Hilltop ads.
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