Bush administration, media neglecting issues in SudanEditorial
Last Monday, about 15 Western Illinois University students took part in a silent protest in an effort to raise awareness about the crisis in Sudan.
It is unfortunate that such protests are necessary for people to wake up and pay attention to such a dire situation, responsible for so much death and suffering.…
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Box City meets life
Nancy had been a fixture at the bus stop down the street from my parents' Alton home for a while before she and my mom become friends. Nancy is the kind of person most people spend their lives trying to avoid - she doesn't bathe regularly, has a foul odor and cusses like a sailor.…
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Media activists score victory
Last Thursday media advocates won an important victory when the Senate voted 98-0 for a measure that puts an end to the government being able to use taxpayer money to create video press releases that air as real news on television. The measure came about as a result to public outrage over President George W.…
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Bush not ruining environment
Earth day is Friday, and we will all get to hear how we are destroying our environment, and the environmentalist wackos will be out in full force trying to claim that the Bush administration is to blame for all our environmental problems. Now, I know many of you feel the same way.…
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Are Cadbury Creme Eggs really better than sex?
Easter is three weeks behind us. The good gentile children of the country are finally coming down from their sugar-highs, the mothers are hanging up their pastel "epileptic-seizure dresses" for another year, and the Cadbury Creme Egg is coming off the shelves for another ten months.…
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Boring lectures good for one thing: reflecting on society
I was sitting in class one day, not really paying any attention to the lecture that was going on. My mind decided to get some exercise and took a walk down Wondering Lane. "Was Gilmore Girls a rerun last night?" "How long will rehearsal go tonight?" "Is America finally going to gain some intelligence and vote Scott off of American Idol?"
And then I got really uncomfortable.…
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Baggo makes me gag-go
With the summer months rapidly approaching, many of you are already breaking out the baseballs, basketballs, tennis rackets and even the dreaded Baggo gear. I say dreaded because Baggo has never been a very interesting game to me - not so much because I wouldn't fit in with the people who play it, but rather because I just cannot find any reason to ever want to play such a game.…
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