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Axing the introductory course requirement would reduce the number of required courses for non-honors students from thirteen to twelve and for honors students from fifteen to fourteen. This would grant government concentrators another elective class to create variety and depth in their studies. Student schedules are often packed with Core and concentration requirements during their eight short semesters as undergraduates, and we hope other departments examine their own requirements with this fact in mind...
...proposals include a reduction in the number of courses required to graduate--from thirteen classes to twelve for non-honors students and from fifteen to fourteen for honors students...
...High School and other school shootings in Oregon and Alabama cry out for introspection that should end in action, not argument. Children in the United States are nine times more likely to be killed by gunfire than what the combined probability is in the next top 25 industrial nations. Thirteen American children die in gun-related incidents daily. It is time to take decisive steps to curb this trend before more of our children are caught in the crossfire...
Becky Weed rarely lays eyes on a coyote as she goes about tending her sheep on Thirteen Mile Farm outside Belgrade, Mont. But at night in her 135-year-old house on the edge of the spread, she can clearly hear the yips and howls of the scruffy predators echoing across the meadows. Were it not for an unusual four-legged critter of her own, the coyotes would have a field day devouring her 240 ewes and lambs...
...outside the Huntsville death chamber to cheer on the executioner. But lately more Americans, including some Republicans, are questioning how just the practice is. Governor George Ryan of Illinois, a conservative Republican, halted all executions in his state on Jan. 31, after concluding the system was "fraught with error." Thirteen people scheduled for death in Illinois had been exonerated. Three of them were freed after a journalism class at Northwestern University proved someone else had committed the crimes. One of the three came within two days of dying. Of 12 others who were executed, one is now believed to have...