Wednesday, April 10, 2002


HUMOR

The Sniff provides comic relief for campus

In journalism, we pride ourselves on credibility, accuracy and usefulness.
But sometimes even staunch, news-type people enjoy a good laugh.

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Opinions from around the country
This editorial comes from the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois.

A recent study by Jeffrey Johnson of Columbia University has confirmed what several studies already have said about the link between violence and watching television. The study reports watching television for more than one hour a day leads to an increase in “assaults, fights, robberies and other aggressive acts.”
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A little humility can help bridge cultural gaps
Commentary by Jeff Dennis

Diversity is an ever-present issue in the development of our university.
Campus billboards and brochures seem to project the image that we are an incredibly diverse community living harmoniously in a utopian environment. If you believe this, it would be recommended you stop reading now and crawl back under your shell, or get back into your Lexus at least.

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Sampling of current events; ‘full of vile crap’
Commentary by Tim Dragga

Rolling Stone columnists Jason Cohen and Michael Krugman broke their latest critique article down using the title of art critic Hilton Kramer’s latest New York Observer review, “Jewish Museum Show: Full of vile crap, not to be forgiven.” So I’ve cribbed it for this week’s rant. Gee, I guess everything good is borrowed.
ABC’s “The Bachelor,” full of vile crap, not to be forgiven.

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Human cloning: A way to realize events in the Book of Revelations
Commentary by Jon Watkins

If this weekend’s scientific reports are true, then humankind has crossed another questionable boundary in our species’ storied history of boundary-crossing. Two egghead doctors, Severino Antinori and Panos Zavos, sacrificed their medical and scientific credibility in order to be the first people to clone people.
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