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Get a fake internet girlfriend for $750

By Jodi F. Bullock · Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013

If any of you single guys have ever wished you could pay a stranger to write nice things about you on your Facebook page or go on raids with you in “World of Warcraft,” a new service called Fake Internet Girlfriend might be just the thing you need.

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Is US still the ‘land of opportunity’?

By Chris Hoitash · Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013

America: The land of opportunity. At least, it used to be. These days, such mantras as “land of opportunity” or “the American dream” seem like the platitudes of a bygone era, etched into the ruins of some ancient empire, ebbed away by the sands of time. Or in our case, it has been eroded by the stagnating and declining middle class. The solution to this problem is simple to state and hard to implement: Public education needs to be widely available and useful.

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US should rethink drinking law

By Leo Romyn Fabbri · Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013

On Wednesday evening my friends and I began a small celebration. It was our friend’s 20th birthday and he spent his night—since he is a fellow Brit—not in a pub or at a club, as on his 19th or 18th, but in our apartment clasping a red cup.

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Republican Party needs to reform

By James Tatum · Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013

Republicans may take solace in a recent Gallup poll that showed 40 percent of Americans identify as conservative, 35 percent as moderate and only 21 percent identify as liberal—but those numbers provide a false sense of comfort.

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Televisions take away from intimate feel in restaurants

By Jodi F. Bullock · Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013

Americans enjoy watching TV. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans aged 15 and older spend about half of their leisure time watching TV—an average of 2.8 hours a day. But when was it decided, seemingly en masse that we are incapable of eating a meal at a restaurant without a television looming in the background?

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Say no to minimum pay raise

By David Konarske · Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013

I do not know anyone who is for poverty in the U.S. In fact, I am confident most Americans are against poverty in general. As odd as it may sound, poverty is one of the reasons Americans should be against raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour as proposed by President Barack Obama in his recent State of the Union speech. As nice as eliminating poverty by giving low-income workers more money sounds, it has many unintended consequences attached to it.

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Stop oversimplifying people

By Patrick Seick · Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013

During the 2012 presidential election, there was much debate about immigration policy and the rapidly shifting American population. Specifically, the quickly growing Latino population. According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center, Latinos made up 17 percent of the American population in 2011. By 2030, Latinos are expected to make up a quarter of the American population.

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U of M’s new gender-neutral housing option great idea

By Rose Carver · Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013

It’s not very often a university is commended for being totally inclusive to people who exist outside of the gender binary. But recently, the University of Michigan announced gender-neutral university housing will be an option on their campus in Ann Arbor at the start of the next fall semester.

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People should stay in Michigan because they desire to

By Robert Uldricks · Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

According to the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, in 2011 there was a net loss of 47,347 people from the state. Michigan’s population has decreased in the last decade, while the entire American population increased. The number of people aged 25-34 living in Michigan has also been in decline since 2000.

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US group fuels anti-gay bill

By Patrick Seick · Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

For months, many Americans have paid close attention to whether the Supreme Court will take up the issue of gay marriage and put the U.S. on the fast track to legal acceptance. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community advocates in the U.S. are vying for legal equality, while elsewhere in the world they have to fear for their lives.

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Love is not about buying

By Jumanah Saadeh · Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air. What’s the best way to show your love? Buy stuff. At least, that’s what the endless advertisements for products one might gift on Valentine’s Day are advocating.

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Polls show plenty of Republicans

By David Konarske · Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

Since President Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney in last year’s election, I have had to listen to people trying to force the Republican Party to become “moderate.” Much like after the 2008 election, the press and many people from both parties have come out of the woodwork to claim the party needs to make major changes in order to be competitive. I have even heard the modern Republican Party, as a whole, described as “radical.”

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Jase Bolger still not pro-choice ally

By Jodi F. Bullock · Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013

Last week, Michigan Rep. Joel Johnson, R-Clare, proposed a bill that would require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound using “the most technologically advanced ultrasound equipment available at that location.”

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Ex-gay therapy harms, not helps

By Jodi F. Bullock · Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013

At a public school in Maryland, seventh-graders were recently shown an anti-bullying video featuring stories about gay students who underwent therapy to become straight, and they were also shown an interview with an ex-gay therapist. After public outcry, the video was pulled from classrooms, and rightfully so, but such garbage never should have been allowed in a public school in the first place.

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All hail Walter: King of the common man

By Leo Romyn Fabbri · Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013

Considering nearly half of American households tune into the Super Bowl every year, I will start by assuming many of you sat down to enjoy this year’s, where a typically hour-long game was the length of a Peter Jackson movie. The annual broadcast is saturated with some of the most expensive commercial breaks in the world and, not surprisingly, they are part of the attraction.

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