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<title>Make school cell phone use an incentive, not punishment</title>
<description><![CDATA[    When it comes to using cell phones in school, it seems like every school has a different policy. Some schools allow you to use your phones after you finish your work, some only let you use them at lunch or between classes and others have a no cell phon...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Jessica Johnston, Valley High School)]]>
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Thu, 17 May 2012 17:21:17 -0400
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<title>PRO: Valedictorian title recognizes outstanding students</title>
<description><![CDATA[    School is winding down, and summer is so close you can almost taste it. For underclassmen, this interim is merely a respite from the arduous schoolwork that consumes their lives from dawn til dusk for nine months of the year.  For seniors, though, not ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Emily Gould, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Thu, 17 May 2012 17:32:24 -0400
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<title>CON: Valedictorian title puts too narrow a focus on a number</title>
<description><![CDATA[    At one point in time, having a valedictorian served a purpose. It gave well-deserved recognition to students who made every effort to succeed. In this day and age, however, having a valedictorian is unnecessary and illogical.  Valedictorians used to ha...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Gabrielle Lee, Hurricane High School)]]>
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Thu, 17 May 2012 17:33:22 -0400
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<title>The First Amendment is our most important right</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If youd asked me a year ago, I wouldnt have been able to tell you anything about the freedoms we have as Americans or even where to find information on them. However, through my civics course in school this year, I have learned more ab...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Morgan Thomas, Valley High School)]]>
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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:48:59 -0400
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<title>Drivers education is a class worth taking</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Theres one great thing about turning 16: gaining the ability to get your license and drive. We all know that its a huge responsibility that we take almost two years to prepare for, but how can we make sure that we are safe enough to be on the road.   O...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Chelsea Shamblin, Poca High School)]]>
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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:48:53 -0400
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<title>Books beat e-books, but any form of reading is good</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Kids today dont read as much as teachers and parents want. When they do, its mostly text messages and computer articles; rarely is it a newspaper or book.   Todays society depends more on technology than paper products. Kids would rather have an iPad, ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Morgan Thomas, Valley High School)]]>
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:43:06 -0400
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<title>PRO: Social media has numerous positive uses</title>
<description><![CDATA[    How many of you reading this right now cant go more than two days without logging onto Facebook or Twitter, using FourSquare to let the world know where you are or checking YouTube for funny video clips -- or even sharing your own. Most of you probably...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:15:57 -0400
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<title>CON: Social networking creates real-world disconnect </title>
<description><![CDATA[    Social media is corrupting many of the fundamental principles on which we have based our lives as socially active human beings.   When I was a kid, I socialized by going outside and playing. There, I would see other children doing the same thing and wo...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Rachael Shook, St. Albans High School)]]>
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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:17:42 -0400
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<title>What happens when entertainers branch out into new fields.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Im not really sure what runs through celebrities heads when they decide to tackle a new field of entertainment. Do they want to be challenged as performers. Do they want to see if they have a hidden talent. Are they desperately in need of attention and...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:30:35 -0400
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<title>PRO: Body modification is a means of self-expression</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Youve seen him before: the punk boy with coal black hair and a piercing through his lip. Theres a hole in his earlobe the size of a quarter, the result of using a gauge to stretch the original site of an ear piercing. Perhaps he has an eyebrow piercing...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:53:42 -0500
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<title>CON: Body modification has long-term consequences</title>
<description><![CDATA[    To be or not to be. To do or not to do. To speak up or remain silent. Life is full of choices made every day. Some choices are good; some are bad. Some choices have temporary consequences; others affect a person for the rest of his or her life.   Extre...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Emily Gould, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:57:23 -0500
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<title>CON: Adoption, not abortion, is the best option for unwanted babies</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  When you bring up the subject of abortion, you will get several different opinions. Some people are for it while others are against it. Some think its the mothers decision.   I, myself, strongly disagree with abortion. I think...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Jessica Johnston, Valley High School)]]>
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:33:12 -0500
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<title>PRO: Women should have the right to choose abortion if they want to</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion after the court case Roe v. Wade. Abortion is a safe procedure -- one of the safest there is in the U.S. and Canada. It should remain legal for those seeking an option other th...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Katherine Burgess, Winfield High School)]]>
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:35:37 -0500
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<title>PRO: Affirmative action necessary to compensate for opression</title>
<description><![CDATA[    As American citizens, we are insured equality under the United States Constitution. However, America has not always upheld the belief of universal equality, and not everyone is treated fairly. This is where affirmative action is employed.  Affirmative ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Katherine Hensley, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:38:53 -0500
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<title>CON: Affirmative action is an act of reverse discrimination</title>
<description><![CDATA[    America is a melting pot of cultures, not a buffet. We cant pick and choose who is offered advancement and who is left behind based on outward appearances and origins.   According to the Sanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, &quot;Affirmative Action mean...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Emily Gould, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:39:48 -0500
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<title>PRO: Jobs, safety among MTR minings benefits </title>
<description><![CDATA[    Mountaintop removal mining (MTR) is what it sounds like: the removal of mountaintops to expose coal seams for mining. The West Virginia Coal Association states, &quot;Mountaintop mining is simply coal mining that occurs at or near the topmost portion o...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Morgan Thomas, Valley High School)]]>
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Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:42:14 -0500
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<title>CON: MTR destroys environment, peoples health</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Our Mountain State is being destroyed, one mountaintop at a time. To meet our nations ever increasing need for fuel, West Virginias majestic mountains are sought out for the seams of black diamonds running beneath them: coal.   To streamline the indust...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Emily Gould, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:46:12 -0500
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<title>PRO: Thanksgiving is an important holiday</title>
<description><![CDATA[        When we think about Thanksgiving, some things that might pop into our minds are football, a few days off school and the famous Macys Thanksgiving Day parade. We might even think of shopping since Black Friday is the next day.   Then, of course, the...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Ashley Haycraft, Herbert Hoover High School)]]>
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Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:48:50 -0500
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<title>CON: Thanksgiving is an excuse to be a gluttonous sloth</title>
<description><![CDATA[    What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Thanksgiving. Let me guess; its food, right. Or maybe its watching football on TV.   Id bet money that the first thing that pops into your head, however, is not something that you are thankfu...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:49:50 -0500
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<title>Beauty is in the eye of the controller</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ask any artist, and he or she will tell you that explaining art is just about the hardest thing to do. By definition, art is anything produced by skill and imagination that expresses or elicits emotion. A painting of an apple is ar...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:28:28 -0400
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<title>Speak your mind in the blogosphere</title>
<description><![CDATA[                One of the most frustrating things about being a teenager is having opinions. Our peers could care less to hear about them, though they have ones they want to share, too. Adults believe were too young and na&iuml;ve to know what were talkin...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:00:37 -0400
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<title>Punishing all teaches the guilty nothing</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Dont you hate getting in trouble for something you didnt do, especially at school. Well, youre not alone.  These days, it seems increasingly frequent that school punishments are being based on the idea that if one person misbehaves, the entire class sh...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Emily Gould, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:01:27 -0400
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<title>Banning books hurts our insight into history</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Charles Dickens, Williams Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe. All of these names have helped sparked the imagination of todays authors. Not only this, but many of our parents grew up on these common names in school.   In the past 20 years, how...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Chelsea Shamblin, Poca High School)]]>
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<title>CON: Pressure of 24-hour news cycle increases mistakes</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The role of news in todays society is irreplaceable. We are constantly checking for new information on our phones, televisions and computers. It is fair to say that, in general, we are addicted to updates.   But at some point we have to ask ourselves: ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Katherine Hensley, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:05:31 -0400
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<title>PRO: 24-hour news sources deliver whats truly important</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The Information Age ushered in a new era for media outlets. With the introduction of the Internet, news could be delivered at a faster rate. After all, why limit important things the public needs to know to one report a day.   Newspapers can give you t...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:06:37 -0400
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<title>Sexual orientation college application question well-meaning but troublesome</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Elmhurst College, outside of Chicago, recently came under fire by conservative media outlets for a shockingly personal question it will include on its 2012-2013 student applications. The private liberal arts college is the first in the...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:56:22 -0400
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<title>Embrace what makes you unique</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A new school year means a new start. Last year is behind you, and you cant wait to reinvent yourself. Youve changed your attitude and your clothes. Youre ready to show the school the new and improved you.   Theres just one problem:...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:21:09 -0400
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<title>PRO: Official language will ease immigrants transition into U.S.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Should the United States declare English the nations official language. The answer is a resounding yes.    As things stand now, there is nothing encouraging people immigrating to America to learn our language. If our government wou...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Emily Gould, Charleston Catholic High School)]]>
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Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:23:02 -0400
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<title>CON: Making English the official language belittles foreigners </title>
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<![CDATA[flipside@wvgazette.com (Nicholas Ransbottom, FlipSide staff writer)]]>
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