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Rolling Stone magazine erred by giving Joaquin El Chapo Guzman editorial control over a piece about him.

Rolling Stone breaks a fundamental rule of journalism

By Steven Richardson, Cartoonist/Staff writer January 27, 2016

One would hope that you learn from your mistakes—apparently Rolling Stone magazine hasn’t. Rolling Stone faced much-deserved condemnation after a 2014 piece about an alleged sexual assault on...

Organized protest has long been a tool to try and effect change.

The risk of abusing an effective tool

Irrational protest demands can obscure important issues
By Maggie Barjolo, Staff writer January 13, 2016

Are people, particularly college students, taking advantage of protesting as a political tool? Is it a way to make unfair and, some might say, irrational demands? Or is it the ultimate way to effect change? The...

Even new labels attached to recycling bins have not cleared up rumors that the school fails to recycle.

Breaking down the Great Recycling Myth

By Alyana Vera, Co-opinion editor December 18, 2015

AMSA may recycle, but does it matter if the majority of people on campus don’t know? It's rather telling when teachers and administration have two different stories. Many teachers who were interviewed...

Guns are easy to obtain in the United States and efforts to restrict access to them has proved largely futile.

It’s time to finally address the gun problem

By Steven Richardson, Cartoonist/Staff writer December 18, 2015

Mass shootings have become so frequent in the United States that during the writing of this column I had to rework my information from the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado to include the latest...

Critics have been quick to pounce and try to make Hillary Clintons use of personal email as Secretary of State into a scandal.

Hillary Clinton and personal email use: nothing to see here

By Anagha Indic, Co-Editor April 12, 2015

An email scandal. So original. Hillary Clinton found herself in the midst of a controversy last month when reports surfaced that she had used a private email account during her time as Secretary of...

The use of social media as a platform for cyber-bullying has become a major concern.

What has happened to basic human decency?

By Alli Caulfield, Co-Editor March 21, 2015

There is no doubt that bullying plays a prevalent role in American society. A 2011 study by the National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that as many as 30 percent...

There have been five finalists for the AMSA principal position without a winner.

Five finalists, but no winner in principal contest

By Chris Ludlam, Opinion Editor March 9, 2015

When I hear the word “finalists,” I imagine that there will soon be a winner. A final person will finish above the rest and receive the prize. And yet, twice now AMSA has declared a host of “finalists”...

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