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Taiwan’s battle for individuality By Kacey Deamer Who am I? Where do I belong? These are common questions we face as college students working through…

By Merdina Ljekperic General Mills and Reese’s officials have issued a cease and desist letter to the manufacturers of Peanut Butter Panda Crunch after realizing…

Guest worker programs and legal slavery in America By Briana Kerensky We always hear about illegal immigrants who fight to get into the U.S. for…

By Amelia Blevins Opening with the lyrics “it’s been a good year, a good new beginning” on the first track “Worker Bee,” indie pop-punk band…

by Malti Jones

Ithaca College Didn’t Adequately Consider Off-Campus Students During Snowtorious B.I.G. It was what I had been waiting for: an Intercom Alert e-mail with the subject…

  By Marc Phillips Loretta Jackson is not like most NJ Turnpike tollbooth operators. This 52-year-old woman’s genuine, perky attitude is contagious. Visit lane No.…

NASA Officials Bummed, Say It Would Have Been “Sick Nasty To See Shit on Mars” in Person By Liz Kloczkowski NASA officials announced yesterday the cancellation…

By Lauren Mateer There’s a reason Stephen King is known as the “King of Horror,” and it isn’t because his surname makes the moniker a…

Why the illusion of safety may be more important

By Sam McCann
The Department of Homeland Security’s latest creation sounds like it was ripped straight from an Orwellian novel: After a failed plane bombing Christmas Day, the government debuted a device that virtually strip-searches citizens when they arrive at the airport. Civil liberty advocates are up in arms about the invasion of privacy. Critics claim the scanners don’t even do their job properly. But here’s the secret no one’s talking about: None of it matters. In the world of aviation security, perception trumps all. As long as we feel safer, it doesn’t matter if the scanners actually slow down terrorists at all.