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Big box retailers market ‘Christmas Spirit’ two months too soon

Shopping for Christmas is fun and picking out new decorations can be an adventure, but holiday shopping before Halloween seems to be a little too early.

In almost every single major business such as Target, Wal-Mart and even Home Depot, Christmas items can be found, and not in small displays here and there, but whole aisles. It seems as though Halloween and Thanksgiving are becoming less and less important in the eyes of big businesses and, it looks as if it’s getting worse.

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The Roundup covers school news, sports with status updates and tweets

With most newspapers now online and even more newspapers closing their doors, it is a time of change within the journalism community.

In light of these changes, here at The Roundup we have made some changes of our own.

This year we have put a greater focus on technology and have made several significant advancements in our online distribution.

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Separated nation must move past politics as usual

In the near future, I can imagine tuning in for the evening news and hearing, “It has been 297 days since Obama’s socialist regime tore the presidency from the deserving hands of “The Maverick.” With replacing our former ‘All Hat No Cattle’ president, the current “Redistributor-in-Chief,” has taken the White House by storm.”

Um –welcome to America?

The land where “united we stand, divided we fall?”

Not really sounding like it, huh?

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Group projects are useless, foster wrong message

After 12 years of formal education, I have come to dread the moment a teacher utters the phrase “group project.”

Group work is not effective for multiple reasons.

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Affiliations without proper representation

The motif for political parties in the United States is to up the other, or so it seems, and it’s been that way since the foundation of our country.

Based primarily on a two party system, American politics has been a competition between the Democrats and the Republicans, though every so often we hear something about a third party.

Recently I have noticed a rise in a new party: the Libertarians.

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Splish splash at Beach Day ’09

Upon entering campus on Sept. 24th, I could see hundreds of students wearing board shorts, carrying colorful towels, sporting flip flops and varied sunglasses.

I thought these beach goers had taken a wrong turn on their way to California.

Instead, they were celebrating Beach Day. Beach Day when Brophy students are allowed to forego their formal dress clothes and instead wear beach attire.

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