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That '70s show

Dude, that was such an awesome show. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid. Yeah, the one where those hillbilly brothers raced their cool car on back roads, just ahead of the law.


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Baby steps

The DSG senate recently passed a constitutional amendment submitted by sophomore Joe Fore and senior Chase Johnson that addresses “Academic Expectations and Responsibilities.


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Tenure needs fixing

There sits today at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a bright young scholar. She obtained her doctorate from Harvard and produced a well received dissertation.


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Frozen

The truth can finally come out now that my parents have made the final payment on my college education.


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End Perkins!?

Loans aren’t our favorite type of financial aid—in fact, those of us who have loans often complain about making monthly payments after graduation.


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More than a game

I have been to lots of different sports since I have been here—I’ve been to wrestling and it is one of the places where you see the nature of what disciplined skill looks like.


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Ration the lies

Before I realized the unique experience that is college, I had only secondary sources such as history books and Saved by the Bell: The College Years to go on.


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Why is it humorous?

NOTE: none of the jokes included belong to the author. Joke 1 — A marquis returns from a business trip to find his wife in bed with the archbishop. After a moment’s pause, the startled...


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Operation Imbibing Freedom

When you’ve been writing these for as long as I have, you start seeing arguments everywhere. They sprout from exhausted soil, even from the most outworn rhetorical tropes.