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Feb
4
2011

Title IX needed now more than ever

A writer for Boise State’s Arbiter, one of the better college newspapers in the country, is taking a regressive stance on gender equity, essentially saying that Title IX is antiquated.
To be fair, this writer is a student journalist trying to learn her craft. However, the column fell flat because this reporter clearly did not do the [...]

Mar
6
2009

Who owns state prep sports?

Who owns the rights to prep games? Is that sort of like asking who really owns the fire station or the city park?
Like these other public properties, a community really owns the rights to prep games.
So why are state high school sports organizations trying to say they own it all, the premise for a lawsuit [...]

Feb
10
2009

Careful how you use ‘Final Four’

In order to protect its copyrighted phrases, the NCAA released a list of terms that cannot be used without prior approval, such as Elite Eight, Final Four, Frozen Four and Big Dance. But don’t be alarmed. Clearly nobody can prevent the use of terms and phrases in editorial writing. You can even use an [...]