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When the Internet was first gaining popularity in the '90s, a practice known as cybersquatting became the thorn in the side of corporations all over the world. Cybersquatting is when someone purchases an available Web address with the sole purpose of selling it off to a company that owns a name or trademark similar to the name of the address. (2) comments

Seminary's relationship to campus

by Lindsay Childers, lchilder@smu.edu

I often sit outside of Perkins Chapel to do some reading in the sun. Many of us at Perkins have heard undergrads walk by and say things like, "The Methodist Church doesn't have anything to do with us at school, thank God," when they're trying to sell prospective students on the place, or other things like, "They just study dead languages over there. (3) comments

A bad excuse for bad decisions

by George Henson, ghenson@smu.edu

In the five years I have taught at SMU, I have been called a lot of things, from "faggot" on down. One of the least offensive things I've been called is "George," by a student in a column in which he also inelegantly claimed that gays' "flamboyant, in-your-face approach [made him] gag. (1) comment

On turning a blind eye

by John Jose, Columnist, jjose@smu.edu

"No strings attached" is a fantastic phrase for those in need. It's not often that you can get something for nothing, especially in the international arena. But that's exactly what China offers Africa: billions of dollars in aid and no uncomfortable demands to mind silly things like human rights. (0) comments