Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
Written by Will Bordash ’18
As college admissions decisions comes into full swing and prospective students begin to find out where they can spend their next four years, Bucknell University…
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
Written by Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Affirmative action, a process which encourages universities to use an applicant’s race as an admissions factor in order to increase racial…
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Friday, November 10th, 2017
Written by Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman’20
Freedom of speech is the foundation of American democratic life. A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey found that 73%…
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Written by Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman’20
Education is a cornerstone for economic and social mobility. Scholars have consistently found that higher education has been a, “key way for…
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
Written by Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Over the past semester we have looked at economic optimism and perceptions of economic fairness from many angles. In our last,…
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Friday, March 24th, 2017
By Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Two weeks ago, we looked at Party Identification, Ideology, and Economic Optimism. Here, we look to see what role economic optimism played…
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Friday, March 3rd, 2017
By Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20
Two weeks ago we showed that there is an interesting and significant relationship between locality and economic optimism, and that people of…
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