The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is about to enforce a smoking ban in the Union. After this initial ban, smokers will be required to be at least 30 feet from any campus building while smoking, and then after that they plan on making the entire campus smoke-free.

As I stood outside with all of my smoking buddies before class, we all discussed the ban and how much it bothered us. While we can understand banning smoking from inside campus buildings makes sense, banning it outside is ridiculous. We’re outside!

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A lot has been written about the Muhammad cartoons, but there are some facts that need to be made clear before a fair discussion can be had about the “cartoons of blasphemy.”

The first is that this was an engineered cultural clash. The cartoons were published months ago with nary a peep.

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A&E Editor’s columns too oversimplified

Beginning in December, Diego Costa has published a trio of columns in the UWM Post that describe "a generation," our generation, as a socially ineffectual scattering of narcissists.

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There’s no doubt about it: sectarian violence has been on the rise in Iraq. Since the bombing of the Askariya Shrine (also known as the Golden Mosque), which is an important and sacred place for Shiite Muslims, tensions between Shiites and Sunnis have risen.

Many media outlets have said it before me, but we may be on the verge of a civil war in Iraq.

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