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Comic Strip! Super Heroines Get Super Scandalous

By Comic Strip! Super Heroines Get Super Scandalous

Giant boobs. Sky-high stilettos. Skimpy outfits. In this day and age, the aforementioned attributes could describe two things: a stripper or your friendly neighborhood superheroine. The super powered female has been present in pop culture ...

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Fashion Forward Students Dress to Stand out in the Crowd

By Fashion Forward Students Dress to Stand out in the Crowd

Are we as Americans living in a cartoon where we are the characters who wear the exact same outfits every single day, like Spongebob? America isn’t exactly known for setting trends in fashion. In fact, ...

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Your Fantasy Football Guide: Tips, Techniques and Success

By Your Fantasy Football Guide: Tips, Techniques and Success

You drafted Kansas City Chiefs’ running back Jamaal Charles with your first pick. In week 2, he gets injured and is out for the remainder of the season. What now? Some 27 million Americans participate ...

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Sunday Night Warfare: Football Reflects Our Own Violent Nature

By Sunday Night Warfare: Football Reflects Our Own Violent Nature

I remember hanging out in the Minaret office right after Week One of this years’ NFL season. One of our sports editors asked, “What’s the biggest sports news of the week?” “Jets win!” I said, ...

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Campus Cribs

By Campus Cribs

There are the students that count taping a Chinese takeout menu to the door and occasionally making the bed as decorating their dorm rooms. Then there are those that take that room with a desk, ...

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#Failing

THE TEST ANSWERS YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO USE

By #Failing

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s the message in Richard Benson’s book, F in Exams: The The Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers. The book is a collection of real wrong answers ...

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The Evolution of Labels:

Nerd Gets Cool and Jock Drops From the Top

By The Evolution of Labels:

My boyfriend is a nerd. My sister is gay. My grandpa was a soldier. I was a punk. What does any of that really mean though? I find myself in a society that heavily relies ...

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What Your Favorite Movie Says About You

By What Your Favorite Movie Says About You

Everyone, consciously or not, has a “rite of passage” movie; that’s the one they force their friends to watch with them. In fact, it’s sort of a friendship prerequisite. And most of the time people ...

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Stereotyping by Major is Wrong

But Let’s Do it Anyway

By Stereotyping by Major is Wrong

Stereotyping is a form of oppression and there’s no excuse to let a stereotype affect your judgment of another person. If there were no more stereotypes there is no arguing that the world would be ...

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Paddling for a Purpose

By Paddling for a Purpose

  Shortly after graduation, senior Hector Manley will be embarking on a kayak journey down the Mississippi River. Many have kayaked the river before, but what sets Manley apart is that he is raising money ...

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On Stranger Tides Sets Sail for Blu-Ray

By On Stranger Tides Sets Sail for Blu-Ray

It’s ironic that the fourth installment of the Pirates of The Caribbean franchise revolved around a quest for the fountain of youth. While it had its high points, On Stranger Tides fell short of recapturing ...

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Get Footloose!

Everybody will be dancing for this well-made rendition

By Get Footloose!

The 2011 version of Footloose is a contemporary remake of the classic with Kevin Bacon, but it stands well as an individual work, holding its own merits. Evaluating this new version, Footloose is well-balanced between ...

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No Life, No Pizza: Texas Mulls End to Last Meals

By No Life, No Pizza: Texas Mulls End to Last Meals

You’re chained up to a pickup truck and being dragged along a bumpy road. You’re thinking about how your life is going to end after just a few more minutes of torture. After you’re dead ...

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Hit and Runs in Garages Distress Students

By Hit and Runs in Garages Distress Students

There have been ten reported hit and run accidents that took place in the garages so far this semester, eight in West and two in Thomas, but only one has been resolved. Sophomore Stef Crocco’s ...

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