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“I’m Kai, the online guy.”

And I’m here to tell you that the news industry is going the wrong way with its approach to the online world.

“Paywalls” aren’t the answer, it’s not the solution, it’s a knee-jerk reaction that the industry might very well regret in the future.

Make no mistake, I think the print industry has no choice but to find a way to turn a profit from its online presence. There’s no question that the digital world will eventually replace print — this coming from a man that loves the very feel and texture of a newspaper.

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I never saw “Marley and Me” and I haven’t read the book, either.

So maybe I’m not the best one to talk about this, but I remember, very vividly, the commercials on the TV for that movie. They featured a yellow lab behaving like it had a death wish. He ate chocolate cake, and climbed out of a moving car’s window.

And somehow this was worth not only a book, but also a movie. Because people were okay with this behavior from a dog.

I know it was meant to be funny, a way to make the end touching when he dies, but I don’t find misbehaving dogs funny. At all.

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In recorded history there have been many doomsday scenarios that have laid out the imminent destruction of the human race. Whether it is a biblical-era scholar predicting the end of the world, or a crack-pot Nostradamus interpreter, there have always been (and always will be) people who believe they know when Earth’s fuse is going to run out and we all get blasted into oblivion. The most recent scenario predicts that the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. While this is as crazy as the rest of the other dooms-day predictions, it does have the most merit out of all the theories that have been around in recent years.

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As Dan Quayle once said, “Public speaking is easy.”

Then again, the former vice president is also quoted as saying that “we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change,” and “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”

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As a transfer student at SCSU, I had high hopes for my sophomore year. I was ready to get going towards my major, take that maturity leap, and start feeling like a real student. I was leaving the nest, so to speak, and I figured that this time in my life would broaden my horizon and help create my adult personality.

As it turns out, it felt a whole lot like freshman year, just with a different view.

I have no complaints about the university or its affiliates; I just didn’t end the year feeling as satisfied as I had hoped.

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Hello, my name is Molly. I’ll be your server today.

If we’re to believe the words of our parents and high school guidance counselors, the whole reason we’re going to college is to avoid having to say those words at work every day.

As for me, I like the idea of serving people.

I became a journalist because I have two ambitions: writing and helping people. Journalism is a field that, if done ethically and with passion, is the marriage of these two passions.

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I am extremely concerned with the April 9 editorial entitled, “Don’t associate a religion with those who abuse it”. The Chronicle’s Managing Editor applies stereotypes to a 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) flyer and uses it to call into question Students for Free Palestine (SFP), and the other six co-sponsored student organizations.

To claim that the image of the woman on the poster is a “Jewish woman, in traditional head-covering placing what is presumably a member of the Palestinian army in front of a tank” demonstrates the very need for the IAW; raising awareness and decreasing ignorance. The woman is not dressed in “traditional Jewish head covering” and Palestinians do not own tanks; Israel does. The woman is Palestinian and “holding” an IDF solider. My interpretation is that the artist wanted to symbolize the empowerment of Palestinians.

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Only a few short years ago, scientists believed the solar system was inactive. Planets like Mars, Venus and the moon have been looked upon as dusty rocks whipping through space. A couple could have been habitable at one point, but they are now just dead weight.

Times have changed, though. There is water on the moon now, and the number of supposedly inhabitable planets in our galaxy is growing every day. What used to be a rarity has been discovered to be common in several planets in our solar system.

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Want to know something that has been beaten to death? The idea of not texting while driving.

Want to know who still does it? Most people.

If you text and drive you are risking much more than a bent fender. You could potentially kill or seriously injure the innocent people involved. And yet, people do it all the time.

I know the ads are annoying and ‘that would never happen to me’, but guess what, it could happen to anyone.

Don’t be so silly, it is really not worth the potential pain and heartbreak.

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Many people suffering from soft tissue injuries and pain in their back, neck or joints can be referred to a physical therapist, who then does everything in their power to get patients on the road to recovery.

At least, that’s how it is in the U.S. As of late, patients in Nottingham, England who are referred to a physical therapist are just given a list of treatment websites before they’re rushed out the door again.

The worst part about it is that it’s not a matter of physical therapists, or physiotherapists, doing their jobs incorrectly. If that were the case, some inspections, warnings, seminars or firings would probably solve the issue.

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