Carolina Review Issues

April 2013 Issue

Issue No. 8 Cover: Earth Day 2013 Features: Filibustering Drones by Mauricio Barreto, The Elevator Queen...

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Student Congress Discriminates Against Gun Group on Campus

The following is an excerpt from an early March post at Carolina Review Daily posted by writer Ben Smith...

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What to do about the Keystone XL Pipeline

by: Lea Palmer Freshman, Pre-Business and Public Policy Huntersville, NC lmpalmer@live.unc.edu The Keystone...

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Put Conservation Back in Conservatism

by: Charlotte Story Freshman, Chesmistry and Italian Charlotte, NC cmstory@live.unc.edu Environmentalism...

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A Natural Feeling about Senate Bill 76

Is it time for the Tar Heel State to support fracking? by: Alex Thomas Freshman, Political Science Weddington...

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Fracking in North Carolina

A positive future in sights for drillers by: Charlotte Adams Freshman, Chinese Cary, NC charlotteadams24...

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Mind if I Check Your Browser History?

The problems of porn addiction, and how to beat it. by: Duke Cheston Class of 2010, Biology …The Dog...

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UNC’s Beyond Coal Movement

The push on campus to divest from coal by: Connor Herring Sophmore, Economics and PWAD Rocky Mount,...

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The High Cost of Low Energy

How we choose between reducing costs or reducing energy consumption when we could be doing both by:...

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Global Warming and the Effectiveness of American Reduction

Not Quite a Global Effort by: Ian Richardson Junior, Political Science and Psychology Charlotte, NC...

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Filibustering Drones

Boundaries to the U.S. Drone Program by: Mauricio Baretto Sophmore, Biology Raleigh, NC barretom@gmail...

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EthaNOPE!

Ethanol too corny to be a viable alternative fuel source by: Nathan Cole Freshman, History Wake Forest...

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The Elevator Queen’s Visit

Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry’s Speech at UNC by: Timothy Bame Freshman, Political Science and History...

Filibustering Drones

Sen Rand Paul

Boundaries to the U.S. Drone Program by: Mauricio Baretto Sophmore, Biology Raleigh, NC barretom@gmail.com Just last month Senator Rand Paul performed a 12 hour and 53 minute filibuster in order to stall the vote for John Brennan as the director

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Ethanol too corny to be a viable alternative fuel source by: Nathan Cole Freshman, History Wake Forest, NC nrcole@live.unc.edu In 2007, George W. Bush signed the Energy Act, declaring oil refineries to use 100 million gallons of ethanol by 2008,

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March 2013 Issue

Issue No. 7 Cover: “Obamanation”: The Next Four Years Features: Senator Kerry: A Disappointing Pick by Ben Smith, Obama’s Financial Policies by Connor Herring, Iran Titanium Situation by Charlotte Adams, The Future of the GOP by Ian Richards, The US and Israel: A

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The Future of the GOP

Demographic Realignment during the Obama Administration by: Ian Richardson Junior, Political Science and Psychology Charlotte, NC imrich@live.unc.edu With the reelection of Barack Obama last November, America voiced its support of Obama and the direction he is leading the country. With

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The “Obama Hypothesis”

Freedom to Worship? by: David Ortiz Sophomore, Classics and English Potomac, MD drortiz@email.unc.edu The Obama Administration has made it abundantly clear, in the early months of its second term, that it operates according to what we shall call the “Obama

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Senator Kerry

A disappointing pick for Secretary of State by: Ben Smith Junior, Political Science and History Statesville, NC b92smith@live.unc.edu John Kerry has been confirmed the next Secretary of State as the cabinet shuffles continue and the second term of President Obama

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Obama’s Financial Policies

The President’s plan for taxes and the federal deficit by: Connor Herring Sophmore, Economics and PWAD Rocky Mount, NC ccherrin@live.unc.edu One of the single most important planks of a presidential candidate’s platform is his economic policy, and today, that means

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