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Sports slip on fashion choices
Apr. 4, 2013One of the most common complaints I have heard regarding marriage equality is it’s a slippery slope.
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Surprise! Politicians are self-interested
Apr. 2, 2013President Obama is creating a legacy — just not for the country’s future.
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Comparisons to models do not exist at all
Mar. 27, 2013How do we know if bananas are priced well?
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Intimate partner violence is scarily prevalent
Mar. 12, 2013I can still recall most of my Preview weekend at UF.
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Harlem residents not fans of the videos
Feb. 20, 2013“I can’t believe what the whites did to the harlem shake,” a post from Tumblr user fquemark reads.
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College men’s take on Valentine’s Day nowadays
Feb. 20, 2013The big day came and went: Valentine’s Day.
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Pumped on ‘Thrift Shop’: A new age of rap
Feb. 18, 2013Macklemore’s hit song “Thrift Shop” hit about 100 million views last week, and I have to say, I felt strangely proud.
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Video games are just like any other medium
Feb. 18, 2013Have you ever seen an argument defeated because someone agreed with it?
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‘No dating’ rule in J-Pop is just baffling
Feb. 11, 2013Having ridiculously good-looking, teenage heartthrobs in pop music is not a new concept.
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Why? The answer is because America
Feb. 7, 2013I desecrated a national treasure over the weekend, and I enjoyed every second of it.
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Point fingers at Go Daddy, not Beyoncé
Feb. 6, 2013According to one self-proclaimed spokeswoman for the mothers of America, Beyoncé is an imminent threat to female empowerment.
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Boycotts are what freedom is all about
Feb. 5, 2013When supporters of LGBT equality denounced Chick-fil-A for its president’s comments regarding gay marriage, conservatives rushed to support the fast-food chain and defended Dan Cathy’s freedom of speech.
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The Internet is really great — for lying
Feb. 3, 2013Facebook lies, and the rest of the Internet isn’t much better.
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Stop and think, then chew
Feb. 3, 2013Most of us eat blindly. On a late Tuesday night, sitting in our college apartments with “Girls” on the laptop and hunger pangs setting in, the majority of us are not looking to make a commentary on modern day commodity food culture.
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Help our culture become more open
Jan. 31, 2013Jadin Bell was 15. Jadin Bell was bullied on a daily basis for being gay. Jadin Bell hanged himself. He was taken off life support this week, showing only little brain ac tivity.
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Women aren’t responsible for rape
Jan. 31, 2013In Saudi Arabia, women cannot drive.
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Shame on you, pastor Louie Giglio
Jan. 28, 2013Unemployment is still high. Median household income is down. The number of Americans on food stamps and receiving entitlements is soaring.
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Did I mention Matt Damon is awesome?
Jan. 27, 2013No disrespect meant to Jimmy Kimmel, but my normal nightly routine is to go home from the library and wind down by not watching his show.
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Reflecting on the roots of the Alligator
Jan. 27, 2013Here’s a fundamental fact: America’s best and most aggressive collegiate daily newspaper is the Independent Florida Alligator. It has stood the test of time and has been a force to be reckoned with in all the eras in which it has served.
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Loganville woman jumped to the gun
Jan. 13, 2013We can learn a lot about the problematic illusion-making tendencies of the discourse on guns by analyzing a recent news story from Loganville, Ga.
