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Convicted murderer unsafe for campus community
Raymond Luc Levasseur was the leader of the Marxist revolutionary group United Freedom Front, which plotted a series of nine bank robberies and at least 20 bombings along the East Coast between the years 1976 and 1984. The group attempted to kill two Massachusetts state troopers and succeeded in killing a New Jersey state trooper. The group's members, including Levasseur, were convicted of conspiracy, murder and attempted murder, among other charges. Levasseur was released from his 18-year prison sentence in 2004.
Abortion addicted mother has no right to pro-choice
Facebook ‘Gaydar’ application a threat to privacy
Recently, the ABC News Web site published an article discussing two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who tried to determine what kinds of information members of social networks, such as Facebook, were indirectly revealing. These two students devised an application on Facebook called the "Gaydar.", which analyzed the gender and sexuality of a person's friends to predict the person's sexual orientation.
Going vegetarian has its benefits
To many people, vegetarianism is just a fad and has no real benefits. When most think of a vegetarian they see a hippie or a left-wing animal activist when in fact anybody could be and should be without meat in their diet.
While I personally am not a vegetarian anymore, I did give it a try when I was in high school for about a year and a half, and I loved every second of it. Turning back from it was a decision to get rid of the label that accompanied my lifestyle.
HPV vaccine just as profitable for men as women
Human papillomavirus infection is a sexually transmitted condition that infects the skin and mucous membranes in both men and women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, there are more than 40 types of HPV that can contaminate the genital areas of men and women, including the skin of the penis, vulva, anus, and linings of the vagina, cervix and rectum. While HPV itself cannot be seen, it can cause genital warts that are not only visible but also painful. It sounds pretty invasive to me.
