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New and unimproved

Off Campus College Transport has made some changes, but no progress. ...


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Wall Street protests still lack purpose and direction

The Occupy Wall Street movement is now in the middle of its second month. It has inspired similar movements across the country, all of which seem just as committed to the cause...


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Frights and delights: Your new TV diet

Most of my columns tend to be bitchy diatribes about the suckiness of people. But not today! No, today I have decided to give all you noobs a guide to a few...


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Understanding your resident rights: a foolproof plan

Getting written up for an alcohol violation is no joke. There are many obvious reasons to keep your drinking off campus. But let’s face it, there are also huge conveniences to pre-gaming...


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Awakening my food consciousness

In high school I, like many, never had to pay attention to weight. Not because I had some jealousy-mongering fast metabolism, but rather, I never really noticed food. I mean, I knew...


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A price too steep

Israel paid a pretty penny for the return of soldier Gilad Shalit, but was the asking price simply too high? ...


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My scarring trip to the Bronx Zoo

It was a Saturday morning in the middle of summer ’95, maybe ’96 — I’m not a calendar, fuck you. Either way, I was young and impressionable. My parents made a last-minute...


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A guide to no-sweat registration

Spring 2012 is looming closer and B-Line is filling my inbox with information about registration dates and deadlines. Time to get down to business. Registration for this spring is going to hold...


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A Halloween battle of the sexes

It seems that All Hallows’ Eve isn’t quite the holiday it used to be. Halloween used to be a day when spirits of the undead would once again roam the earth; the...


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Mainstream radio transmits bad waves

I have a complicated relationship with mainstream radio. In recent years, a chunk of my music hasn’t come from radio but from miscellaneous searches on iTunes. For hours, I would get lost...