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Keady brings Team Sweat awareness to students

All of Brophy was stunned by the cold hard facts that Jim Keady, the founder of Team Sweat, revealed March 1 in Robson Gymnasium.

Keady shared the knowledge he has learned over the past 13 years with the Brophy students during the Summit on Human Dignity, and many were shocked by how much they did not know about Nike.

Apparently, the Indonesian workers for Nike are extremely underpaid and can barely make enough money to purchase the absolute necessities for survival, including food and water.

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Globalization becomes a relevant issue for students

When the Summit began this year, I had this feeling people had some idea what they were getting into.

Corrupt corporations and the exploitation of workers was something students were not completely naïve to. We were aware that there were problem with companies like Nike, but it never bothered us to the point where we inconvenienced ourselves over it.

The point is we were faintly aware of the problems.

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Take action against unjust low wages

This year’s Summit on globalization spoke about how we must be citizens of the world and how we must help those who are oppressed by big business, though doing this may conflict with political ideas.

It is important for one with strong views who may oppose the suggestions presented by the speakers of the Summit to remember that the Summit is not on globalization; it is a summit on human dignity through the lens of globalization.

The main focus of this Summit, and the ones of the past, was to realize that there are people all over the world being robbed of their dignity.

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Internet provides solution for privacy problems

The expansion of the Internet’s user base and sharing capability has brought with it many benefits, but also many concerns.

One of the biggest we’ve seen is that of privacy.

This concern has been exacerbated by the large expansion in the use of social networking sites like Facebook.

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Brophy Earthquake Relief Fund should help Chile

As I was watching the Spanish news on TV recently, I saw with my own eyes the devastation the people in Haiti suffered after the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Similarly, I saw the news of the disastrous earthquake in Chile on Feb. 27 and realized that there is a need to help a fellow American country.

According to The New York Times, the first Chilean earthquake on Feb. 27 was at an 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale. CNN stated about subsequent quakes on Mar. 15 and 16, “A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.”

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Americans gambling on Social Security with current system

Social Security is a hot topic today, from national to local elections it seems this government program has gotten a lot of attention.

Everyone has heard about Social Security, most students might think it’s something that old people use when they don’t work anymore, and they are right.

Social Security works like this: When you get a paycheck you pay a certain amount to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), a fancy way of saying insurance tax, and this tax money goes into a humongous piggy bank.

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In the Newsroom: Inner-workings of The Roundup, process revealed

While The Roundup is almost always in some state of writing, investigating and editing, many hardly see what really takes place within the walls of E331.

More frequently these days, The Roundup may bleep into existence with Twitter posts, Facebook notifications and Web site updates. But it is most known when it is released once a month.

As a monthly publication, it can be hard for students to think that The Roundup even exists in between the dates it is released. However, this could not be farther from the truth.

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Has health care message been lost in partisan rhetoric?

Over the past year we as Americans have been engaged in a battle over the issue of whether giving healthcare to all people is appropriate.

Never before in my lifetime has our country been so vocal on their thoughts, opinions and ideas about one single piece of legislation.

I really wonder if our country didn’t have the stability we have would we be in a full on civil war between liberals and conservatives?

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What do you think about the new health care bill?

What are your thoughts on the new health care bill President Barack Obama recently signed into law?

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Hallmarking of holidays obscures reason for the season

An estimated 1 billion Valentine cards are sent each year, according to the Greeting Card Association, a number second only to Christmas, with an estimated 2.6 billion cards being sent each year.

And what better way to say “I love you” than with a Hallmark greeting card and a $4.99 box of chocolates from Walgreens?

This festivity occurring every February has murky origins and many historians debate who the actual “Saint Valentine” was.

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