By Brendan Alan Melander It’s Sunday, the fifth day of February 2017. There’s no National holiday, but family and friends all over the country prepare to spend the afternoon together…
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The Blurred Line Between Advocacy and Incitement
By: Justin Gowan Americans enjoy a unique privilege not shared by a majority of the world—the ability to publicly criticize the government without fear of retaliation. In the wake…
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Captain America’s Shield and Trade Secrets?
By: Snehashish Sadhu Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War ends with the Captain forfeiting his shield to Iron Man. But what is Captain America without his shield? His new friend Black…
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Censorship or Law Against Hollywood Age Discrimination?
By: Yvonne Tindell On September 24, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that will require subscription-based entertainment websites to remove or omit a subscriber’s age or birthdate from…
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments on a Case That Will Decided the Future of Offensive and Disparaging Trademarks
By: Adam Shelton This past week the United State Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding whether part of the Lanham Act was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.[1]…
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Locker Room Talk? Not in Their Locker Rooms.
By: Shelby Anderson At the second presidential debate, the phrase of the night was ‘locker room talk’.[1] Just forty-eight hours before the debate, a video surfaced of the Republican presidential candidate…
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Effective Political Expression By Sports Organizations: A Cursory Analysis on the Reactions to North Carolina’s Bathroom Law House Bill 2
By: Tim Lauxman Roughly $180 million.[1] That’s a (rough) estimate of economic loss from sporting events being canceled or moved from North Carolina in protest of the state’s Public Facilities…
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Winning a Medal; the Only Way to get Paid for Play According to the NCAA
By: Alexa DuMity Over 1,000 student-athletes competed at the Rio Olympics in 2016.[1] This included current and incoming student-athletes.[2] Many of these athletes were successful and brought home medals…
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NCAA Faces Further Legal Trouble
By: Colette Phelps August has not only brought the start of the long awaited college football season for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but also the start of further…
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Forensics Meets Music
By: Amena Khestchin-Kamel The Question The question when it comes to plagiarism in the Music Industry is can judges and jurors really understand “striking similarity ” between two songs,…