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...this trend in local and national journalistic priorities continues, college newspapers must pick up the slack in order to hold their institutions accountable. While professional papers are still better suited to cover higher education, since they do not suffer from conflict of interest, student publications are the next best option. If they do not pick up where the professionals leave off, controversial university policies could take effect without proper, outside scrutiny. In order to prevent this and ensure that their coverage remains largley free from bias, college papers should strive to become independent from their universities whenever possible...
...It’s about being classy without being wasted and drunk while at the same time advancing our policies,” he said. “We’ll do beer pong, but we can do better...
...became known as a defender of the public against the corrupt impulses of Wall Street. He investigated subprime-mortgage lenders for making unscrupulous loans, went after AIG for bid rigging and charged stock analysts with deceptive practices. His nickname, the Sheriff of Wall Street, and his I'm-better-than-everyone-else persona carried him into the governor's office, where, despite a rocky first year, he was expected to bide his time before moving on to bigger things...
...average age of 66; it included Charlie Rangel, fresh from his "admonishment" by the House Ethics Committee. In the absence of Ted Kennedy, it had no senior legislative health care expert from the Senate - unless you count Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, of whom the less said, the better. (Senator Ron Wyden, who has done the most creative thinking about health care policy of any Senate Democrat, was added to his party's roster at the last moment and was allowed to speak only briefly, toward the end of the day. He used no anecdotes, but deftly subverted...
...communications performance, Pfeiffer and Dunn found that the President often lost control of the conversation by focusing too much on governing while the opposition campaigned against him, exploiting the cyclone's appetite for controversy even when it lacked a foundation in fact. Now, Pfeiffer says, the Administration will be better armed to react, with faster, more aggressive responses through more types of media. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...