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Hazelton: Monitoring students social media accounts is expensive and relatively useless

Hazelton: Monitoring students’ social media accounts is expensive and relatively useless

Paul Hazelton April 26, 2016

School districts in Orange County Florida are renewing the allocation of money and man hours to monitor their students' social media accounts.The practice, which started last year, reportedly allows schools...

Hazelton: Graffiti artists should be allowed to turn boring trains into masterpieces

Hazelton: Graffiti artists should be allowed to turn boring trains into masterpieces

April 21, 2016

I’ve got a strange and potentially unpopular argument for you this week. See, the other day I was driving  when one of those traffic obstructing freight trains barreled out in front of me. As we all...

Hazelton: Hillary Clinton lacks authenticity and is a liability for the Democratic Party

Hazelton: Hillary Clinton lacks authenticity and is a liability for the Democratic Party

Paul Hazelton April 11, 2016

Whenever Hillary Clinton opens her mouth, I picture her speech writers and campaign managers nervously fidgeting in chairs while nervous hands pass shaking folders of sinking polling data, campaign contribution...

Hazelton: bill to require identification when buying prepaid or burner phones limits personal liberty

Hazelton: bill to require identification when buying prepaid or ‘burner’ phones limits personal liberty

Paul Hazelton April 6, 2016

Most of the debate surrounding phones and national security has hinged on whether encryption technologies should be accessible to the general public and whether cell phone manufacturers like Apple should...

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Hazelton: law to ban texting while walking could be useful, punishments may be extreme

Paul Hazelton March 28, 2016

I think I'm good at multitasking, but when I play "Pokemon Fire Red" in class while simultaneously attempting to absorb information, one of two things happens: either I accidentally kill my favorite Pokemon...

Hazelton: Cable news is highly deluded -- and it is mostly our fault

Hazelton: Cable news is highly deluded — and it is mostly our fault

Paul Hazelton March 23, 2016

Over the the break I watched four straight hours of cable news. I began watching at 10 a.m., started taking notes around 11 and didn't stop till 1 p.m.What can I say? I'm from Colorado Springs. There's...

Hazelton: Will innovations like the Oculus Rift encourage us to take virtual reality too far?

Hazelton: Will innovations like the Oculus Rift encourage us to take virtual reality too far?

Paul Hazelton March 2, 2016

I want you to picture being virtually immersed in a video game where physicality matters. Imagine versions of "Battlefield," "Mortal Kombat X," "NHL 16," or better yet, "Grand Theft Auto V,"where players'...

Hazelton: Scalias death brings the birth of drawn-out judicial appointment conflict

Hazelton: Scalia’s death brings the birth of drawn-out judicial appointment conflict

Paul Hazelton February 22, 2016

While I don't generally agree with most of Justice Antonin Scalia's rulings, the brutal and clever quips displayed in his opinions and dissents made him my favorite judge. I'll miss his humor, but not...

Hazelton: CSUs parking deficiency puts a financial burden on north-of-campus residents

Hazelton: CSU’s parking deficiency puts a financial burden on north-of-campus residents

Paul Hazelton February 15, 2016

Finding parking near campus has always been about as difficult as deciphering hieroglyphics without the aid of the Rosetta Stone. But soon, with the institution of further residential parking permits,...

Hazelton: Coin flips are not a viable tool for allocating delegates during elections

Hazelton: Coin flips are not a viable tool for allocating delegates during elections

Paul Hazelton February 10, 2016

For those of you who are blissfully unaware of the rabbit hole that is Democratic caucus rules in Iowa and other states, coin flipping--or more accurately, quarter flipping--is routinely used to determine...

Hazelton: The GLBTQQA community deserves more specific identifying pronouns

Hazelton: The GLBTQQA community deserves more specific identifying pronouns

Paul Hazelton February 4, 2016

Organizations like GLBTQQA have been searching for a gender-neutral, singular pronoun for years in order to accommodate transgender people and others who don't want to be described as “him” or “her.”...

The arrest of El Chapo: a minor victory within a losing battle

The arrest of El Chapo: a minor victory within a losing battle

Paul Hazelton January 25, 2016

To the glee of the FBI, the DEA, the media and most of the public, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. "El Chapo," the legendary capo of the Sinaloa cartel — the largest narco empire in the...

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