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  • Why Students Fork Out So Much Money for College (Hint: It’s Not for Instruction)

    Why Students Fork Out So Much Money for College (Hint: It’s Not for Instruction)0

    In the last few years, college costs have expanded so rapidly that many are beginning to wonder if a degree is still worth the price. The most recent numbers from the College Board suggest that tuition can average between $9,500 at a public university to over $30,000 at a private college. The question as to

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  • Why Students Can No Longer Work Their Way Through College

    Why Students Can No Longer Work Their Way Through College0

    As a current senior at a private college, I know firsthand how expensive the cost of college is today. For the upcoming 2017-2018 academic school year, the full sticker price of attending my school is $53,950. Wow. Many could criticize me for picking a pricier private college instead of a cheaper public one, but when

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  • Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction

    Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction0

    My life is messed up, why can’t I get my act together? Most of us have heard a variation of this talk track in our heads, or we’ve heard it from others. If only, we think, I didn’t have this problem, then everything would be all right. We feel burdened by what seems to be

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  • Why Straw Bans Don’t Help the Environment and Needlessly Restrict Freedom

    Why Straw Bans Don’t Help the Environment and Needlessly Restrict Freedom0

    Of all the consumer products one might have expected to become a flashpoint for political controversy, the humble plastic drinking straw is an unlikely contender. Leap into the headlines it has, though, with communities like Seattle and San Francisco recently enacting bans on disposable straws. The city council of Santa Barbara, California, initially voted for a ban

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  • Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary

    Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary0

    When it comes to education reform, there are generally two camps: those who want to improve the existing mass compulsory schooling system through tweaking and tuning and those who want to build something entirely new and different. Not surprisingly, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in the “think different” camp, advocating for school choice and vouchers,

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  • Why Stereotypes Can Be Rational

    Why Stereotypes Can Be Rational6

    Few terms get worse press than stereotype. We are constantly told that it is bad, bad, bad and never, ever justified, in any situation. And yet it is a deeply innate element of human reasoning. Even when you try to force people to stop doing it, they do it anyway. This likely means it must

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