Issue 8


Letter from the Managing Editor

Andy Boden, Managing Editor

Hello everyone, and welcome back to school.  This is my last semester serving as managing editor of The Flip Side, so let’s make it a good one.


Dude, that’s so gay!

David Steinfeld


 


State of the Union: Obama 2.0? or Why Our Country is Screwing Itself.

Amber Reed

Undergraduate/Creative Writing



American Politics: Soon to be Sold

Steven VanDeLaarschot

Undergraduate/World Politics

 

 

            The Supreme Court of the United States has just recently ruled in a 5-4 decision that corporations can now spend as much money as they want on political campaigns.  The stated justification for this ruling by the majority is that the First Amendment guarantees this right.  The problem with this decision is that corporations can donate ridiculously large sums of money to the candidates of their choosing and in essence buy elections.  Let me repeat that:  BUY ELECTIONS! 


Financial Aid: A Defense of the Ignorant Portrayal of Financial Aid as 'Free Money' of Jacob Kampen's Ideology of Selfishness

Zach Schultz

Senior, English Education

 


 


Hypocrites Eat Shrimp

 

Matt Van Teuteberg



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