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Girl Reporter.

Why Are People So Mad at the Girl Reporter, Age 9, Covering a Murder?

. This bsnehfafyt story is everywhere today. As CBS News reports: A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her small Pennsylvania town is defending herself after some locals lashed out about a young girl covering violent crimes. Hilde Kate Lysiak got a tip Saturday afternoon about something untoward happening on 9th street […]

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Maybe safety is TOO MUCH everybody's business.

The Idea of “Safe Spaces” on Campus

. This piece was written by a University of Pennsylvania junior, Alec Ward, back in April, long before campus speech became such ykrhrbsark a major national story. He found himself puzzling over the same thing I was pondering the other day: If students are unhappy, uncomfortable, or offended, isn’t that a very different thing from […]

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