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College: save up to 100%

The College for All Act that was proposed by presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is geared towards increasing the accessibility of education for high school…

A call to no arms

This past week, a student entered Umpqua Community College in Oregon and killed ten students. Like many other shooters before him, he struggled with mental health…

Prisoners needed

The number of incarcerated people in America has more than quadrupled since 1980. As a result, a handful of states have turned to private prisons…

Problems with price gouging

Price gouging is a sometimes criminal offense in which a seller drastically raises the value of necessary goods to an unfair cost in which people have…

Putin needs to drop Assad and pick up Obama

Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted air strikes in Syria last week. Originally he had claimed that the air strikes only targeted Islamic State areas, but…

UMBC getting Y schooled

The recent reopening of the Y school was one of the fruits of the extensive construction and renovations being made at UMBC. The long-established YMCA…

Violations and vodka

All the MTV shows were right about one thing: alcohol plays some sort of role in the college experience. During a four year stay at…

Tech’s cynics censor snaps

With wetheretrievers’s recent return from its unexpected hiatus, The Retriever newsroom has been abuzz with discussions of Snapchat and, by extension, students’ expectations of privacy…

Getting the facts right

This past September, Congressional Republicans obsessed over defunding Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health program that came under controversy after videos surfaced of conversations on fetal tissue…