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Written by Jillian Miers
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When an average person or non-conservative thinks about the free market, they imagine big CEOs bathing in money while crime and pollution run rampant in the cities and destroy the countryside.
But, during a lecture on March 30 presented by the Young Americans for Liberty, Walter Block argued that without government regulating public services and business practices, the market's incentives would balance environmental harm and the cost involved for consumers or producers. An audience of about 40 heard him explain this concept in regards to five concerns: air pollution, paper versus plastic, species extinction, global warming, and overpopulation.
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Written by Nico Perrino
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When administrators in my hometown of Elmhurst, Ill. saw an increasing number of 8th graders entering the community’s high school without adequate reading and writing skills, the teachers and administrators responded. They developed a cohort program for arriving freshman that would place those students who scored low enough on their standardized tests into schedules that would help enable them to catch up with their peers without falling too far behind.
The schedule developed by my hometown for these students would take four out of the eight periods of the day and devote them to reteaching core reading and writing skills that should have been learned before coming to high school. As a result, this would limit the number of elective these students could take their freshman year.
Parents were furious.
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Written by Nico Perrino
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Over the past two years the Indiana Standard has undergone many changes: the entirety of the leadership who helped found the paper have either graduated or no longer work for us, the website has undergone two redesigns, and the editor-in-chief-position has changed hands three different times.
As the new editor-in-chief I intend to continue the Indiana Standard’s culture of change.
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Written by Staff Reports
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On Wednesday, March 30, Walter Block, an economist from Loyola University, will seek to challenge the idea that the “free market” and “environmentalism” mix about as well as oil and water. He will present a lecture entitled “Can Free Markets Protect the Environment?”
The lecture is sponsored by Indiana University’s chapter of Young Americans for Liberty and will be held free of charge at 7 PM in Woodburn Hall, Room 101.
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