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Stop Your Complaining and Whining; Back Up Your Beliefs

I've heard variations on "America - love it or leave it" far too often recently. It's amazing that people can claim to be patriotic and simultaneously be so ignorant of the values for which our countr...
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Foot Patrol Doesn’t Deserve the Flack that People Give It

"Fucking Pigs" and the like are the words screamed from various parties on DP as the cops walk down the street. How do they react? They laugh it off.
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Show a Little Consideration When You Park Your Automobile

We've all seen what a bitch it is to park in I.V. I know it's horribly difficult for the car-dependent to drive up and down the street looking for a legal parking space.
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WeatherDefiniton

The Turkey Drop noun. 1 the cutting of one's losses in mid-November.
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A.S. It Is: The SAT Flunks Out When it Comes to Diversity

The SAT I has been proven to be culturally biased; its ability to predict the success of a college student is almost insignificant.
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Living Without Vowels: Meet the New Boss in Afghanistan, Same as the Old Boss

The Northern Alliance isn't your typical Boy Scout troup either. Their treatment of women hasn't been much better than that of the Taliban. Also, they've been devouring the care packages dropped by Am...
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Red Tape: That Kind of Muzak Don’t Soothe the Soul

Try as I might, I couldn't place it. Then without warning, it happened. The orchestra on the PA system began playing Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence."
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Life With Father

The weatherfather instilled valuable advice via fear. To prevent the weatherchildren from swimming in the lake he described amoebas. Amoebas, as I understood them, were amorphous carnivorous demons fr...
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We Need to Stop Encouraging the ‘Women as Objects’ Mentality

Maybe if the small portion of our population that has brought so much physical and mental anguish to such a wide audience had imagined their acts being brought upon someone close to them, they would h...
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Chicks on the Beach

Caring for one of Isla Vista's natural treasures is too important a task to be undertaken without I.V.'s help.
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Print of the Great Pumpkin

So I have a pumpkin.An eighty-plus pound pumpkin.As giant pumpkins go, I’m told it’s a small one.The pumpkin is sitting in the middle of my living room, but really, the rest of the living ...
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Red Tape: NASA’s New Administrator Could Create a Black Hole of Despair

NASA's latest expedition is to hell -- in a hand basket.
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Both Taliban, Alliance Mean Cruelty in Afghanistan

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, is doing everything it can to remind the world that Afghan women must play a major part in leading their country to peace and democracy.
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Don’t Take the Toothless Hamp-ster Seriously

Q: How much wood would Associated Students President Brian Hampton chuck if Associated Students President Brian Hampton could chuck wood?
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Right Through the Very Heart of It, New York Came Through

I must admit that I was never too keen on New York. To me it was an overcrowded freak show with high rents and a high crime rate to boot. There was never any reason for me to even as much as think of ...
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