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Put away smartphones this week

By: Alia Jeraj

I know of very few people these days who do not have their lives concentrated into a small screen they can carry around in their pockets.

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Put away smartphones this week

By: Alia Jeraj

I know of very few people these days who do not have their lives concentrated into a small screen they can carry around in their pockets.

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Could Barack Obama book an Airbnb?

By: Martha Pietruszewski

When I was studying abroad in the spring of 2014, you bet I roughed it in the hostels. That was the quintessential study abroad experience, right?
 
I thought so at the time, but now I’m not so sure. Some of my friends who studied abroad didn’t even go near a hostel.

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Could Barack Obama book an Airbnb?

By: Martha Pietruszewski

When I was studying abroad in the spring of 2014, you bet I roughed it in the hostels. That was the quintessential study abroad experience, right?
 
I thought so at the time, but now I’m not so sure. Some of my friends who studied abroad didn’t even go near a hostel.

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Culture Compass

By: A&E

Culture
 
Watch this:
 
Arrested Development
 
If you haven’t seen this cult TV sitcom from the early 20

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Culture Compass

By: A&E

Culture
 
Watch this:
 
Arrested Development
 
If you haven’t seen this cult TV sitcom from the early 20

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Dr. Date

By: Dr. Date

Dr. Date,
My sweet, darling girlfriend really loves her some karaoke. Most weekends involve us heading out to some bar in Dinkytown or Northeast in search of it, and we even hit up most birthday nights down at Burrito Loco.

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Faculty need to form a union

By: Rick McCormick Professor, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch

We faculty, both tenure-line and contingency, have spent a good deal of time this semester discussing whether to form a union. More and more faculty have been signing up in support.

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Gun control: a national security question?

By: Matthew W. Gieseke University student

America, land of the free, home of the … firearm? Of course, it is. Guns are as American as apple pie and John Wayne. It’s simply ingrained in the fabric of the American mentality.

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Court must value campus diversity

By: Daily Editorial Board

For the second time in seven years, the Supreme Court is considering a case that questions an affirmative action plan at the University of Texas at Austin.
 
The plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, is a white student who says that, in 2008, the Texas institution denied her admission because of her race. 
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