Category: December 2016
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Your Horoscope for December
Aries (March 21 – April 19) The Moon is in friendly air sign Aquarius today, inspiring you to consider your relationships on the last day of the year. At the start of 2017, you might want to try friendships with new species–there’s no shame in being a regular at the zoo…
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Gawker, Gawker, Gone
I haven’t seen Hulk Hogan’s sex tape, but I feel confident in saying that it is not worth $230 million. I also know for a fact it is not worth all of Gawker.com being shut down and yet, somehow, that’s exactly what happened. In August 2016, Gawker, the pretty cousin…
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The Best Places To Cry: A Finals Week Review
This past finals week, I hit a writer’s block mere hours before a final was due. In an effort to alleviate that and the stress it caused me, I procrastinated for hours by scouring the campus in search of the best places to stress-cry during finals week. These were the…
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A Brief Timeline of Native Americans Getting Fucked Over Yet Again
March 2016: Energy Transfer Partners LP has gotten approval from all four states to start construction on a 1,172 mile underground oil pipeline. The EPA suspects pumping about 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day through the ground could lead to some environmental problems and asks the U.S. Army Corps…
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My Inexperienced Adventure at the FIS Ski World Cup
The International Ski Federation’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup was held in Killington, Vermont over Thanksgiving weekend, making this the first World Cup held in New England in the past 25 years. I found myself, someone who has lived 20 minutes from Killington and never skied a day in her…
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A Christmas Party Primer
Christmas Eve has arrived. Your Christmas list was diligently overstocked months ago. You’ve covered all your bases. If you don’t get thing X, then you know for sure thing Y will be waiting under the tree. You also know that if your mom or dad won’t get it, then maybe…
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A Whole Lotta Pizza
One brave Chivomengro reporter decided to eat pizza every day for a month. Here is what happened: I ate pizza every day in October. Am I disgusted with myself? No. Did I get fat? Nope. Does pizza forever haunt my waking memory and dreams? Just about. It started off as a…
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The Year In Gambino
On December 2nd, 2016, Childish Gambino released Awaken, My Love!—a funk-heavy follow-up to his 2013 album, Because The Internet. However, that isn’t the only highlight of the former Community star’s year. Awaken, My Love! is merely a cherry on top on what has been an incredible year for Donald Glover. In February…
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Arrival: A Plea For Understanding
On October 11th, the film Arrival made first contact with theatres. Its basic premise made up the majority of its marketing: Aliens have landed on earth. They are speaking to us. There’s just one problem: We have no idea what they’re saying. Enter Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and Ian…
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The Truth About Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, America’s first birth control clinic, opened its doors on October 16, 1916. Nine days later it was shut down by police for the first time and its founder, Margaret Sanger, was thrown in jail. She provided the inmates with information about birth control while imprisoned. This set the…
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