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A Different Take on SGA

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Many students wonder how decisions around campus are made and how exactly the Student Government Association works. While there are...

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On the Constitutionality of Healthcare Reform

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Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s healthcare reform bill, sending it to President Obama for his signature or...

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Conn and New London Communities Unite for Benefit Show

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Conn students are not the most likely of characters to encounter downtown. On some level, the fault lines of disconnection in our...

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The Rise of “Awk” Culture: A historical approach to a contemporary linguistic phenomenon

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That freshman is so awkward. Look at how awkward my butt is in these pants. Would it be awkward if I smoked in your car, Gam-gam? You have...

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A Journey Outside Structure: Computers, Card Catalogs Can’t Keep up with Niantic Book Barn

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When the stone retaining walls and castellations of our windy campus begin to feel claustrophobic, take a sun-bleached Saturday afternoon...

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Top Ten Things You Can’t Talk About in the Library

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1. Last night. Chances are, I saw you making a drunken fool of yourself while I was doing the same. Talking about it will only jog my hazy...

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Memory Tapes (and Others) Jog Memories of Tapes

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In 1992, I was four years old and the time had come for my older brothers to move out. At the ages of twenty and twenty-one, they sought...

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Campus Politics: A Look at SGA’s Current Projects

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This past week’s meeting featured two major proposals. The more straightforward of these was a proposal to change the Environmental...

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