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Websites protest SOPA by going offline

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By Eli Bolus and Chase Gosman

Today hundreds of websites will go down and be unusable for the remainder of the day.  This is not a technical error but a unified act of defiance to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that will be going through Congress this February.

The SOPA will allow the government to block any website that violates the rules they will set.  For example if a person claims a site is infringing on copyright laws the government can block anyone using an American I.P. from accessing it.  This means user-generated sites like YouTube and Flickr would be affected greatly.

As expected much of the internet has responded in outrage.  Among the websites going black for the remainder of today are all of Wikipedia’s pages, barring the SOPA page, greenpeace.com and reddit.com.  By going black a website blocks all material.

Websites hope that by doing this more people will become informed of the bill and attempt to contact their congressmen.  Those who would like to learn more about SOPA can read about it on wikipedia.com.

Eli Bolus, News

Whaley takes over as principal today as Jensen accepts promotion

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by: Eli Bolus and Chase Gosman

After 24 years of working on faculty at FC, Louis Jensen has been promoted to director of high schools for the New Albany-Floyd County School Corporation.  Jensen first found out of his promotion 10 days ago.  Former assistant principal Janie Whaley takes over as principal today.

Assistant principal Rob Willman will take Whaley’s former position and Whaley, Willman, and Jensen will move to hire a new dean to fill his place.

Over the next few months Jensen will spend less and less time at FC until he is only coming in periodically. He will also help to acclimate Whaley to her new position and help in hiring another assistant principal; the position will be advertised as a “dean”.

Whaley said she is excited and wants to “keep it extraordinary” at FC.

Check out February’s edition of the Bagpiper for more detailed coverage of this ongoing story.

Eli Bolus, Politics Corner

Meet the Candidate: Rick Santorum

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By Eli Bolus

Candidate:  Rick Santorum

Political Party: Republican

Qualifications: Pennsylvania U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senate

Website: ricksantorum.com

Stance on Issues

Economy:  Create jobs by rolling back job killing laws, lowering taxes, and increasing innovation and entrepreneurship.

Energy: Decrease dependence on foreign oil by drilling in Alaska and other oil possibilities in America.

Education: Attempted to include the “Santorum Amendment” in No Child Left Behind; it was an attempt allow Intelligent design to be taught in public schools.

Environment:  Supported drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and in 1999 he worked to strip the Energy Department of 65 million dollars tagged to solar energy research.

National Security: Recognize Iran as a serious threat and to combat Iran by working with Israel to determine the proper military response to stabilize the region.

Abortion:  Pro-life; wants to take funding from Planned Parenthood and birth control.

Immigration: Feels the strong influx is damaging to the nation and a strong advocate of former President George W. Bush’s U.S.-Mexico fence initiative and guest worker program.

Eli Bolus, Politics Corner

Meet the candidates: Barack Obama

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By Eli Bolus

Candidate:  Barack Obama

Political Party: Democrat

Qualifications: Former Senator from Illinois

Website: barackobama.com

Stance on Issues

Economy:  Wants to increase jobs and American manufacturing. Also supports small businesses with tax cuts and increased health care options for employees.

Energy:  Prevent more accidents, like the B.P. oil spill with increased regulations, and increase the use of alternate energy like wind and solar energy.

Education:  Reform No Child Left Behind, reduce teacher lay-offs and “out-educate” the rest of the world.

Environment:  Wants to improve air quality and clear skies by regulating mercury emmsions, which will save up to 17,000 lives each year.

National Security:  Bring the troops home while still working to defeat Al-Queda. He also supports our veterans with improved benefits and opportunities.

Abortion:  Pro-choice.

Immigration:  Secure the border, but also create a better amnesty program for illegal immigrants already living in the U.S.