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Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that he would be lifting the ban on women in combat roles, a rule first recognized by the Pentagon in 1994. The decision doesn’t change much, since women have been in combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan

In early January of this year, while facing numerous federal piracy charges, Internet activist Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was 26. This event strengthened the newfound debate on transparency and freedom of information sparked by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

Higher education, unlike K-12, is not mandatory. No one forces a high school senior to take out huge loans to attend a college they can’t afford. So why do we act as if the “student debt crisis” is part of the recession our country has suffered for the past several years? Perhaps the recession aggravated certain factors, the economy isn’t entirely at fault. It’s the student’s choice.

According to the The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, 48 percent of alcohol use reported by college and university is done by those who are underage. Additionally, the U.S. National Library of Medicine reported that 12.5 percent of students own fake IDs pre-college, which increases to 32.2 percent in their second year at college.

The American Bobsled Association (ABA) is into its fifteenth week of lockout, and still nothing has happened to try and bring back the sport. Seriously. Nothing has happened.

Have you ever walked home from campus after 11pm on a weeknight?

If you have, you know there’s a change that takes place. The winds shift and there’s a light layer of fog on the ground. That’s when you know that they have awoken from their daytime slumber, ready to terrorize the students of South Hill like the bloodthirsty gang they are.

I don’t give a shit if you got 10 hours of sleep. I don’t give a shit if you got one hour of sleep. Shut that greasy hole in your face that you call a mouth.

Four score and seven months ago, moviegoers stood proud in their jorts and cheered ‘Murca!’ as they watched an epic battle for justice unfold in Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s comic novel, the film grabs patriotism by the cojones as the 16th president goes all Buffy on a confederate vampire army.

A lot of people been coming up to me recently saying, “J, you’re 43 years old, you got a beautiful wife and a gorgeous baby girl and you’re one of the richest dudes I know. No way you still got 99 problems.”

A excerpt Kyle Robertson