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Diet snack fads hinder wallet, dieting awareness

By Teresa Combs and Stephen Deutsch

America thrives on its size. Whether it's a rocketing obesity rate or obsessions with the latest fad diets, we can never have too much or too little. Our collective ignorance about health and proper dieting techniques have been so outwardly ridiculed by marketing campaigns, we ought to be embarrassed for being fooled as we are now.

Graduation brings new leadership at paper

As another round of graduates prepare to leave UAA and move out into the working world, some may be shocked to find that having a degree doesn't signify much in itself. It says that someone can read and remember basic information. It says that someone can stick to a goal for years and see it to completion.

Letters to the Editor

Free speech or hate speech? Is my personal right to choose what I do with my body the same as the slaughter of 12 million living, breathing, Jewish, gypsy, deaf, blind, disabled, mentally ill, left-handed and any other non-Aryan human beings by an insecure hate-filled, fear-filled country? I do not think so.

Is abortion genocide?

By Kaitlin Johnson and Kyra Sherwood

Demonstrators don't understand meaning of genocide By Kaitlin Johnson The Northern Light All Americans have the right to promote and defend their beliefs. However, they also have a responsibility to represent issues in an honest manner. The Genocide Awareness Project, which has been hosted all across the nation, displayed its anti-abortion message for students to see.

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