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Gee goes green

Editorial

Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee announced yesterday that the university has adopted a policy that would require all copy paper used on campus to have at least 30 percent recycled content, according to a university press release.

The move will be an expensive one for the university, costing about $300,000, but it is money well spent and it is good to see that the current administration is willing to spend a little extra on environmental issues.
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N-Bomb roll call

Editorial

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered an inventory be taken to account for all nuclear weapons under U.S. control. The decision came in response to the Pentagon's confession this week that it had accidentally shipped bomb parts to Taiwan.

Another factor in prompting the roll call, as cited by Gates, according to CNN, was the also-accidental flight of six nuclear warheads from North Dakota to Louisiana aboard a B-52 bomber in August of 2007.
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Parents make bimbos, not games

by Ben Schwarzwalder

Internet and console video games have been popular for more than two decades and have educated and entertained people of all ages. Unfortunately, a game occasionally comes along that causes extreme controversy. In this case, it is the United Kingdom online game called "Miss Bimbo."

For those who have not heard of this game, it is aimed at young girls and gives them "bimbo dollars" to spend on things in the bimbo world.
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What it takes to win

by Dante Marinucci

To win the Democratic nomination this year, a candidate must garner at least 2,024 of 4,047 delegates. However, these numbers are misleading, because the Democratic Party splits its delegates into groups of pledged delegates and superdelegates who have the opportunity to change their votes before the national convention in August. The pledged delegates are responsible for 3,253 of the total, and superdelegates account for the remaining 795.
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Lapel pin patriotism

by Travis Schulze

Flanked by four American flags on each side, Sen. Barack Obama gave his pivotal "race speech" March 18. Most of us probably did not watch it but rather learned of the speech through our various media sources, where it was filtered into a three-minute news piece with a few 10-second sound bytes.
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