In case you weren’t one of the 3.2 million people that tuned into the women’s championship game, the UConn Huskies crushed Louisville 93-60. Both teams played through injuries, with UConn’s leading scorer Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis playing through a stress fracture and a foot injury yet managing to add 18 points to the board.
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“You asked me to stay, but there’s a million reasons to leave.” So sings Julian Casablancas on “One Way Trigger,” the first single off of…
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The request for IC to engage in Socially Responsible Investing, or SRI, would seem uncontroversial. But for mysterious reasons the higher-ups have resisted a transparency we deserve as students and patrons of the college. -
I never actually planned on joining the circus.
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As an outsider in another country it can sometimes feel like you’re in the ring of a circus being watched or critiqued because your cultural differences are not only noticeable, but amusing to native peoples. So if you’re looking to travel or study abroad for the first time, keep reading. -
The wind tugged at my hair as I swished through the air on the Cloud Swing, a high-flying circus act. I pushed my toes upwards, visualizing kicking straight through the roof of the big top.
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From begging our mothers to let us get our ears pierced in elementary school to the rite of passage that is the 18th birthday tattoo, body modification is engrained in many human cultures, including American society. Body modification has lasted the tests of time and developed independently in societies around the world, and while some look down on it for its bad connotations, many others embrace it as a means of expression, community and spirituality.
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Two days after 28-year-old parolee Evan Spencer Ebel was killed in a shootout with police, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper went on TV and said, “I felt like I was caught in a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from. All these things were happening to people that I loved. And they didn’t seem to be connected in any way.”
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Rand Paul’s rare 13-hour “talking” filibuster last Wednesday on the Senate floor protesting the nomination of John Brennan for CIA director reinvigorated the the debate over US drone policy internationally — and now domestically—for policy makers and informed citizens alike.
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