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How to have your fee — and spend it, too!

by Connor Mendenhall - SFPA Contributor
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Administrators may trust student opinions when it comes to imposing new fees, but when it comes to allocating them, they know what students really need “to improve their education.”

‘White privilege,’ ‘heterosexual privilege’ fliers pop up at Stanford

by Alex Katz - SFPA Member
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When walking through White Plaza today, I happened upon some fliers with strong statements about “white privilege” and “heterosexual privilege.”

Living Wage campaign has more problems than workers’ comp at William & Mary

by The Virginia Informer Editorial Board
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The Living Wage Coalition’s agitation for higher compensation for Residence Life employees at the College of William & Mary has been the principal issue in campus politics this semester.

Living Wage campaign has more problems than workers' comp at William & Mary

by The Virginia Informer Editorial Board
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The Living Wage Coalition’s agitation for higher compensation for Residence Life employees at the College of William & Mary has been the principal issue in campus politics this semester.

WikiLeaks, DADT debate strain conservative-libertarian relations

by Robby Soave - SFPA Assistant Editor
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There’s nothing like a good national security debate to bring the relationship between conservatives and libertarians back to pre-Obama levels of mutual hatred.

Petition over Stanford’s new janitorial subcontractor brings back “social justice”

by Quinn Slack - SFPA Contributor
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It’s not clear to me that any consistent conception of “social justice” is served by the actions advocated by this petition.

The Portland leaf fee: Residents required to clean streets or pay fees

by Melissa Haskin - SFPA Contributor
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Desperate for money, the city of Portland decided to invoke a leaf-removal fee this autumn.

Defending the employees of the TSA

by Zachary Gorelick - SFPA Contributor
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These fliers usually arrive at their intended destination. But what if they don’t? What if something goes terribly wrong?

GW doesn’t understand how to do a test of the emergency system

by Will Frey - SFPA Member
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You shouldn’t start an email “[GW CAMPUS ADVISORY] Emergency…” unless you mean it.

A little history on the FDA’s smoking labels — and what would work better

by Ben Maras - SFPA Contributor
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Telling somebody smoking makes them ugly works a lot better than telling them the health dangers.

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