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Amnesty International’s Visit Not Inspirational


Lindsay Ziegler comments about her experience at the Amnesty International talk this past week at USF and tells Foghorn readers that they may have been demonizing capitalism.

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Senioritis: What is the Source?


Seniors are in their final year at USF and are finding that getting their work done and going to class is getting that much harder. But is it laziness or something else feeding the senioritis?

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How New Health Care Plan Affects Students


Freshman politics major Laura Waldron informs USF students how Obama's new health plan will affect them as they make their way through college and after they graduate.

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Pulitzer Winner Highlights Technology, Multimedia


Pulitzer Prize winner and San Francisco State University alumnus Jose Antonio Vargas began his presentation at the Davies Forum with a short video about the prevalence of technology in the future, specifically noting its effects on Obama’s presidential campaign. He offered a somewhat foreign positive outlook on the future of journalism, which he [...]

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The Coming Tide of Protectionism


By Dinen P Maharaj One of the last straws to break the proverbial camel’s back and precipitate the 30’s depression after the feasting 20’s, was protectionism. Ironically policies adopted to protect and clot the bleeding ended up being lethal doses of aspirin causing a global hemorrhage that would free flow for a decade. Ironically further still, [...]

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Berg Lawsuit Frivolous, Distracting


There are still some people who have not given up on the 2008 Presidential Election. One Pennsylvania attorney in particular is questioning the constitutional legitimacy of President-Elect Obama under article II of the constitution which states that, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time [...]

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Candidates for Supervisor of District 1 Answer Questions at Town Hall Meeting


Tis the season to be political as voters file into the ballot box and candidates make their last minute pleas. The scene was no different last Wednesday on the USF campus as students attended a Town Hall Meeting where candidates running for supervisor of District One responded to student questions and concerns and discussed why [...]

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Zapatista Freedom Movement Speaks on Campus


An awakening in social consciousness occurred for many of the students who attended the lecture on Feminist Theology and the Zapatista Movement: A Report from Chiapas given by world-renowned Mexican anthropologist Sylvia Marcos. Wearing miniature earrings of women dressed in traditional colorful clothing with ski masks over their faces, it was clear senior media studies major [...]

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The New Dawn of American Leadership is Here, It’s Obama


At his acceptance speech Tuesday evening, Barack Obama said to a captive audience in Chicago and around the world, “[This campaign] grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy.” This could not have been more evident than in the scene in Parina Lounge. Approximately 100 students, many of whom [...]

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Proposition Eight Bad For Californians


This coming election day we will all be asked to vote for President, Vice President, and among several issues, Proposition 8 which eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.   This ballot proposition aims to amend the state constitution so that all marriage other than that between a man and a woman will [...]

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