Opinion Articles
Servatius: Private student loan program costs taxpayers more
The Salt Lake Tribune reported last week that Zions Bank was bailing out of the federal government's largest student loan program, joining 26 other lenders that have done the same since last fall. The number of financial institutions leaving the program is unprecedented, according to the report, representing as much as 30 percent of its total loan volume.…
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Auxier: Barack, it's too little too late
It's been 15 months since the presidential candidates started campaigning and only now is Obama's personal relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. coming to light.
Why, with months of media scrutiny grilling Mitt Romney about things that happened in the LDS church 100 years ago, didn't the media spend as much time digging into Obama's close ties to a present-day pastor who spews hate-speech every Sunday and why Obama sat in his pew listening to his racist rants against "white America" for 20 years?
Obama attempted to distance himself while not disowning Wright in a speech attempting to rescue his campaign from the public backlash.…
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Chronicle's view: Universe Project includes major drawbacks
Early planning has begun for the "Universe Project," a part of the U's Campus Master Plan which would call for the development of a structure that would house retail, restaurant, office and housing space at the west end of the Rice-Eccles Stadium parking lot.…
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Letter: Cookies more important than children?
Editor: I would like to comment on the article published recently on the U's decision to give up on efforts toward sustainability ("U gives up on sustainability," April 1). Currently, there is substantial evidence that humans have become a geologic force. Since recordkeeping of temperatures began in 1880, seven of the warmest years on record have occurred out of the last nine.…
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