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Teen pregnancy problem has sensible solutions
 
Teen pregnancy is a solvable problem that plagues our generation. This topic seems to have grown since the dawn of the reality shows &ldquo;16 and Pregnant&rdquo; and &ldquo;Teen Mom.&rdquo;
They send a false notion to impressionable kids that if you want to be famous and be on television, all you have to do is get pregnant! Shows such as these, although they try to be informative, take away the seriousness of teenage pregnancy.
 The growing number of teenagers with children is a result of irresponsibility. With so many ways to protect yourself from this consequence, it&rsquo;s the result of pure negligence that so many teens are impregnated each year.
 Birth control is not difficult to acquire. There are free clinics that provide birth control. Your family doctor can prescribe it, and drug stores sell it. It costs much less to buy birth control than it does to raise a child.
 I believe that you should be able to obtain birth control through your school. I don&rsquo;t believe that any school should go around promoting premarital sex, but I do believe that if schools had birth control available, more girls would protect themselves from teen pregnancy.

Jessica Venturi

Wright Township
PSU shouldn&rsquo;t have made JoePa a university icon
Coach Joe Paterno is quoted as saying that when he came to Penn State University it was a &ldquo;cow college.&rdquo;
He certainly turned the football team into a &ldquo;cash cow&rdquo; for the university, and that seemingly is one of the principal reasons why Paterno and the university administration were silent in 2002 when allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky emerged. They apparently didn&rsquo;t want to cut off that cash flow, for it is a well-known fact that winning football teams encourage alumni to make financial donations. The other reason for the silence was the sexual nature of the alleged crimes of Sandusky. In this case it appears the familiar &ldquo;conspiracy of silence&rdquo; was operative.
Joe Paterno was often described as an icon of the university. It is unfortunate that one man was permitted by the Penn State administration to become this. A personality cult quickly developed, and other aspects of the university were drowned out in the constant barrage of publicity about JoePa.
Contrast this with Albert Einstein at Princeton University. For decades Einstein, along with many other world-famous scholars, was associated with the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. Einstein did not become an &ldquo;icon&rdquo; of Princeton University, and when he died flags weren&rsquo;t flown at half staff.

Herbert Simon

 Shavertown
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