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  • Expert: ‘Focus on Diversity’ Is Causing British Universities to Decline

    Expert: ‘Focus on Diversity’ Is Causing British Universities to Decline0

    Should university admissions be purely meritocratic, based on students’ demonstrated academic ability? Or, should students with better academic profiles be passed over for admission in order to fill diversity quotas? These are some of the tough questions that British citizens may be asking themselves after a controversial article in The Telegraph last week. The piece reports that

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  • Expert Explains Why Many Educators Can’t Teach Math

    Expert Explains Why Many Educators Can’t Teach Math1

    U.S. high school students recently scored a huge victory when they won the 2016 International Math Olympiad. The team’s head coach attributed the U.S.’s increased standing in math to the many online elements of self-education that are now available to the enterprising young student. But what about the young students who don’t pursue online math

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  • Expensive and Dangerous: Our Epidemic of Prescription Meds

    Expensive and Dangerous: Our Epidemic of Prescription Meds0

    Pop. Pop. Pop. That’s a common occurrence in households throughout America. I’m not talking about gunfire or Orville Redenbacher’s corn. I’m talking about popping pills.  Most of us are aware of the opioid crisis. As the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported in January 2019, more than 130 Americans die every day from “the misuse of

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  • Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.

    Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter. It Left Them Defenseless.0

    This past weekend, a competitor at a video game competition in Jacksonville, Florida, allegedly opened fire on fellow gamers, killing two and wounding 10 before taking his own life. It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms. And once

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  • Exclusive, Racist, Judgmental, and Dull: Cities are the New Suburbs

    Exclusive, Racist, Judgmental, and Dull: Cities are the New Suburbs0

    The taxes are too high. The people indulge in groupthink. There seems to be a system in place to prevent free thought, free action, and free movement. Everyone is more preoccupied with fitness than having a good time. Racism is a problem. When did America’s cities become like 1950s suburbs? I recently moved out of

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  • Exchange Student: Chinese campus more tolerant than NYU

    Exchange Student: Chinese campus more tolerant than NYU0

    Ella Reider said she didn’t quite know what to expect prior to her study abroad in the People’s Republic of China. Reider, a Global Liberal Studies major at NYU who recently completed her sophomore year, is spending the year immersing herself in Chinese culture and learning the nation’s language at NYU-Shanghai, a portal campus the

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