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Everyone can help fight cancer

Take action, step up to raise awareness

By Breann Schossow

Two years ago, I watched one of the most important people in my life go from cancer diagnosis to death in five days. There was no hope and there was nothing I could do. Despite the helplessness, one question truly bothered me. Whatever happened to early detection? Without early detection, there is no opportunity to fight the disease.

Candidate goes against campaign pledge

Scare tactics, half-truths fill presidential debate

By Kim Acheson

Sen. John McCain likes to talk about running a respectful, honorable campaign, yet actions like the last debate filled with half-truths and lies speak louder then campaign words. On March 5, 2008, McCain pledged to run a respectful campaign, a respectful campaign based on issues.

Spectator editorial: Family matters

Nebraska lawmakers need to change law immediately

By Spectator Staff

It appears some citizens of Nebraska are doing more than corn husking. According to a Sept. 25 USA Today article, some Nebraska parents are abandoning their children at hospitals for reasons not related to economics. The parents won't face prosecution under a new law that allows parents to leave children at licensed hospitals without explanation.

Author's advice to women wrong

Book's logic disappointing, not true to reality

By Keri Wabrowetz

"Here's a little secret ladies - what you won't do, ten broads around the block will." This quote is just one of many debatable quotes from first-time author Dante Moore's recently released book, titled "The Re-Education of the Female." Moore, who is 33 and surprisingly has a girlfriend, said in an excerpt from the book that "The Re-education of the Female" is sure to bring women to the man they've always wanted, and not to one they've just "settled for.

Mmmboppin' with Scott Hansen: Visas: everywhere they want to be?

By Scott Hansen

Immigration officials right to speed up process for HIV-positive community.

Letters to the editor

Common sense can help out environment, too

By Jacob Kampen

In a recent letter to the editor, a student complained about the practice of watering the lawns on campus. She first cited several "green" attempts which have been made thus far, such as "Trayless Tuesdays," which is currently generating a lot of complaints (someone has even started a Facebook group to protest it).