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Clayton Olash is a senior and a staff writer for ManualRedeye.
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Opinion: What the Kony 2012 movement taught us

Shortly after the Stop Kony hysteria, many people discovered facts about the charity group heading the movement, Invisible Children, that not only discredited their validity, but at [...]

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Opinion: Why politics should be taught in schools

Whenever the issue of politics being taught in schools is brought up, parents generally tend to get worked up. Worked up because they’re afraid some [...]

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The rivalry game that transcends basketball

The UK vs UL Final Four show down this Saturday is not as important as the Superbowl. It’s not as big as the NBA finals, [...]

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Opinion: Why Santorum would be the worst thing for the U.S.

Senator Rick Santorum’s recent surge in the GOP polls has made me realize that he could actually win the Rebublican nomination. His legitimacy is no longer [...]

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Opinion: Why the environment matters

My attendance of the mountain top removal protest in Frankfort last Tuesday has drawn my attention to a different, yet extremely important political issue: how [...]

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Opinion: Why Obama’s SOTU doesn’t mean anything—yet

The buzz over President Obama’s State of the Union Address last Tuesday was phenomenal. Millions of Americans around the country watched as the president laid out his plans [...]

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Editorial: Our generation’s unforgettable 9/11 experience & the lessons learned

It has been 10 years since I went to school with a backpack full of crayons and coloring pencils. Ten years since I carried my [...]

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