By: Chris McLaughlin

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By: Scott D’Amico

Leave it to news organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post to remind me of Ronald Reagan. In 1964, Reagan made one of his more memorable observations. “The problem with our liberal friends isn’t that they’re ignorant,...

By: James Brubaker

Taylor, I’m gonna let you finish but… When I started writing this column, I was set on the idea of responding to the statement of Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records, that Taylor Swift is “the voice of this generation.”...

By: Kyle Cooper

As a capitalist society, we have a natural imbalance of wealth among social classes. As a capitalist country, we have a natural imbalance of wealth in comparison to other countries. Obviously, people with different amounts of wealth are going to have diff...

By: Leslie Briggs

The human mind and its capacity to learn fascinate me. Until recently, I never truly gave it much thought. Since I started teaching English in Cholula, Mexico, I’ve become more aware of how beautiful it is to learn. To think and ponder, to write poe...

By: James Cooper

“The ‘Millenials’ are coming,” proclaimed a ‘60 Minutes’ broadcast nearly two years ago. They went for Barack Obama 2-1 in the election against John McCain last year. They tend to be far less socially conservative than ...

By: Hayley Imel

Breaking news: Middle-aged white man with a small family, a small dog and a big income elected to office today. How many times do Americans hear that headline on the evening news? Never. Why? Old candidates do not make a new story. Across the nation, our ...

By: James Cooper

In 1994, Sen. Saxby Chambliss arrived in Washington, D.C. as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was one of 22 Republicans who made up the Class of ’94, and in 2002, he ran for U.S. Senate against the Democratic incumbent Max Cleland. ...

By: Rebecca Canaan

Last fall, I let another driver go ahead of me at an intersection on campus. He took the last handicapped spot in front of the Classroom Building, my final destination. I figured that was OK because he probably needed it. However, he didn’t have a h...

By: James Cooper

“Obama bin lauden is the new terrorist … muslim is on there side … need to take this country back from all these mad coons … and illegals.” Audra Shay likely thought little of those spell check-challenged words when her fr...

By: Hayley Imel

Question: What do time machines, Neil Diamond, the Chicago Fire and immigration have in common? The answer is immortalized forever on my parent’s video camera, and it involves the most embarrassing moment of my life. While most other fifth graders w...

By: The Daily O'Collegian Editorial Board

In Oklahoma, the average age for a first marriage is 22.7 for women and 24.9 for men. Although we remain unsure what constitutes that 0.7 and 0.9, we find these numbers particularly revealing. In Oklahoma and Idaho, men and women marry younger than their ...