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Activism and cynicism

The Labor Day weekend is one of those perfect long weekends when the gas prices are down and the weight of the semester...

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Immigration is the new anti-imperialism

It’s your second week back Comets and you’ve been to the luau and the ethnic breakfasts. The Korean Student Association had its mixer...

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Don’t be like Greece…

Some of you are excited for a new life, some of you are happy to be back and some of you just want...

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I’d rather just die …

It’s been a while since we’ve talked, you and I. Almost all of summer has gone by and the fall term is just...

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Fun in the sun with Shakespeare

Summers and picnics go hand-in-hand, and if you are culturally inclined then you can enjoy the outdoor evenings with Shakespeare in the Park...

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A journalist’s oath

I’ve been a student reporter for five years now, yet as I read through Neil Henry’s “American Carnival: Journalism under siege in the...

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Malarial maladies

There is a strange fever that is widespread in tropical countries around this time of the year. It comes with the chills every...

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Find me a home

If you haven’t kept up with world news, and most of us haven’t because the semester’s winding up and all hell is breaking...

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Stall or spoil?

After several conferences and billions of dollars spent on pollution and other problems, we are in a worse environmental state than we were 25...

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Share with me?

Shared economies are strange creations of a post-recession market. People are letting strangers live in their homes and driving unknown, drunk 21-year-olds in...

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