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By: Luke Farmer Web Editor, Former News Editor, Reporter

Well and hellip;this is it. I've preached at you, chatted with you, informed you (I hope) and even made you think about something you hadn't thought about before, but I won't be doing that here anymore. This will be my final column for The Inkwell afte...

By: Kristen Powell Outgoing Editor-in-Chief chief.inkwell@gmail.com

My professors know how to expect me on Wednesdays and mdash;in a zombie-like condition, babbling almost incoherently between gulps of sugar-free Red Bull about some photo or story a staff member captured in the perfect way. I'm sure the instructors lu...

By: Luke Farmer Web Editor

If you turned straight to the editorial page for my column and hellip;thank you! But you did miss the large investigative report I wrote on the front page. I won't be writing my column about that because I want to assure my readers and mdash;and The In...

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One small step toward shoring up a troubled budget, one giant leap backward for Georgia's future. This is truly all the pending cuts to higher education will amount to. I write to you, the students of Armstrong Atlantic State University, on behalf of ...

By: The Inkwell Editorial Board

Today is April 22, 2010 and mdash;Earth Day. Originally founded by Sen. Gaylord Nelson in 1970, several countries celebrate Earth Day every year. During this time people are encouraged to focus on environmental issues and be earth conscious....

By: Luke Farmer Web Editor

Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced last Friday that he would retire this summer from the U.S. Supreme Court. Stevens, considered to be the leader of the 'liberal and rdquo; wing of the Court, has been a bulwark against the executive overrea...

By: The Inkwell Editorial Board

Let's face it, if you're graduating from college this May or even in December, the tight job market is less than appealing. With the lack of experience and skills, many graduates are giving up the job search to return to school, join the military, take...

By: Michael Saltsman

Teens are having an especially hard time finding work in today's job market, as the March 31 article 'Tight job market is squeezing out young workers, and rdquo; accurately describes. However, we should also recognize the policy that made it more diffi...

By: Luke Farmer Web Editor

I'm not going to tell you that the proposed and planned cuts to the University System of Georgia will do great, possibly irreparable harm to the state. I won't mention that the cuts will hurt your quality of education, cost you thousands more dollars i...

By: The Inkwell Editorial Board

For many AASU students, paying for education won't be the same anymore. On March 30, President Obama signed into law a student loan overhaul. The new law, which is really just the provisions for education in the broader health care reform bill, elimina...

By: Luke Farmer Web Editor

In January I wrote my column on the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. Since that time, the bill was packaged with the healthcare 'fixes and rdquo; bill and was signed into law Tuesday by the president. In that column I argued against the bill,...

By: David A. Nichols Los Angeles Times (MCT)

President Obama gets it. So did President Eisenhower half a century ago. When you are breaking a decades-long legislative logjam, you take what you can get so you can do better later. Critics deplore the compromises Obama made on healthcare. And it's ...

By: The Inkwell Editorial Board

Although debate still continues across America, health care reform is now law. While some of the benefits will not take affect until 2014, a few take immediate effect and still more come into play in another six months....

By: Luke Farmer Web Editor

On Sunday the House of Representatives passed the Senate's version of the health care bill, after some final, last-minute deals between President Obama and a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats. They promptly passed a package of 'fixes and rdquo; to dea...

Civil disobedience and ndash; it's as American as Velveeta. In his essay of the same name, Henry David Thoreau opined that when the 'wise minority, and rdquo; elected to serve in the best interest of citizens, makes dumb decisions, the majority must a...

By: Luke Farmer Web Editor

The Georgia legislature and the USG are going full-speed ahead on the plan to slash $300-400 million from the higher education budget for fiscal year 2011. As I wrote last week and as anyone not living under a rock knows, that is a gargantuan soul-crushin...

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Sometimes I think people just don't get it. In any budget, you have income, and you have expenses. For the states facing education cuts, the math is simple....

By: The Inkwell Editorial Board

Beginning next fall, students at AASU who live on campus will be required to purchase a $600 meal plan. Any student with a current meal plan knows that even a $400 meal plan is very difficult to eat up in a single semester. Taking away the students' right...