By: Megan Munroe

Sometimes I wonder which is more likely: that the entire world has gone absolutely insane and I am the only reasonable human being alive, or that it is I alone who has just gone crazy. Maybe so...

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When I first began my undergraduate career at Plattsburgh State in 1998, it was as a journalism student. Though I eventually changed my major, one of the lessons that stuck with me is how extra...

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Having an inexperienced leader potentially creates problems not only for the governed, but also within the government itself. An organization for the students, by the students is ineffective if...

By: Kristofer Fiore

Yay To it being the end of the year — pretty sure it goes without saying. In just over a week we’re free from nutty weather, research papers, lab practicums, reporting — all o...

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 I am truly upset that chinchilla testing is being practiced here on campus....

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First, tremendous thanks must go to Cardinal Points for addressing the issue of vivisection. The experiments, which includes cranium drilling without anesthetic, are worse than I expected.]]> 1.2260853 Thu, 6 May 2010 21:29:32 -0400 http://www.cardinalpointsonline.com/opinions/letter-inaccurate-info-reported-in-cp-1.2260851

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Renee Cumm’s article in the April 30 issue of Cardinal Points included inaccurate information about me, compelling me to respond to correct those errors. ...

By: Jen Stiles

As I look back through my own photo archive of Cardinal Points, I realize that there’s more here than just a simple snap shot.

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By: Katie Via

Well CP, you know how the saying goes. Breaking up is hard to do. To be honest, I thought I was over this relationship a long time ago — a year ago, to be precise. I was ready to walk ...

By: Jessica Bakeman

There is a time in every Cardinal Points editor’s career when she is ready to give up, when she wants her life back. I had those moments — two, that I can remember, when I really...

By: Alyssa Fleck

Five years ago I was introduced to a student who would spend the next two days showing me around the college and introducing me to the journalism department at Plattsburgh State. During that...

By: Dimas Sanfiorenzo

And, folks, it’s time to say goodbye. Yep, just as quickly as I came, I’m gone, baby. This will be my last column in Cardinal Points. With my grand finale, I had two goals. Say g...

By: Jeremy Fisher

It has been a wild and crazy ride during my four years in the great white north we “affectionately” call Plattsburgh. I took some interesting classes and some pointless ones. I s...

By: Kristofer Fiore

New debit cards, new Sundowner, some pretty awesome events at Burghy’s and a ton of clubs and organizations to be a part of, all make for a damn good year in my “grade book.&rdqu...

By: Dimas Sanfiorenzo

Yay To the Spring Carnival coming up this week. This event rocks. Right next to Clinton Dining hall they’re going to have games, inflatable things, and food — oh man, so much food. ...

By: Dimas Sanfiorenzo

Drug dealers, scam artists, pimps, bad people  — they’re all synonyms commonly attached to the word “hustler.&rdquo...

By: Joe Solano

Moron, idiot, selfish, delusional and dangerous are some of the words associated with the jackasses who decide to get behind the wheel of a car and drive drunk. These idiots are making the poor...

By: Kristofer Fiore

Thirteen thousand, eight hundred and forty six — the number of people who died in 2008 because of drunk driving accidents, according to alcoholalert.com. As a means of prevention, those f...

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Since the mid-1980s, a group of scientists have been working in a Plattsburgh State lab, blasting noise into the ears of chinchillas. When the scientists are done with the animals, they euthani...

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WARNING: The following program may contain satirical jabs. Less viewer discret...