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Media manipulation
Oct. 30, 2012Last week, The Tufts Daily, the independent student newspaper of Tufts University, published an editorial titled "Photo release should serve as a
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The Mitt that fits
By JOE KONZE JR | Oct. 28, 2012On Nov. 6, I will be a brand new 22-year-old. And for the first time in my life, I will be doing something that I have been waiting to do for a long time. Vote.
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Two-ring circus
By NATHANIEL SMITH | Oct. 28, 2012Four botched field goals. Two interceptions. One fumble. Countless dropped passes. On Saturday, Toledo did everything it could to lose its game against Buffalo - one of the strangest games I have ever seen.
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I'm voting for Obama because I'm a female college student
By Rebecca Bratek | Oct. 28, 2012As a 21-year-old woman voting in her first presidential election, I'm voting for Barack Obama. In 2008, I was 17 years old, just on the cusp of voting, and I started to pay attention to politics, thanks to a great government teacher who tried to make us excited about our country for the first time.
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Indecision 2012
Oct. 28, 2012If you read any other newspapers, you might notice something different in the confines of its pages every election year: a candidate endorsement, an editorial piece where the editorial board of the organization meets, discusses and decides who they wish to endorse for elected office. Here at The Spectrum, this will not be the case.
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Walk the Line: Week 8
By JON GAGNON | Oct. 25, 2012It's finally here. After seven weeks, my column has finally earned the credibility I have been waiting for: an undefeated week.
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It's not about the bike
Oct. 23, 2012It seems UB's Distinguished Speaker Series is cursed. In 2010, UB hosted author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, who went through a yearlong investigation on allegations that major portions of his books were inaccurate and that he was mismanaging assets at his Central Asia Institute. Last year, the series brought forth Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor. Rather, former seven-time Tour de France winner. Armstrong was officially stripped of his titles yesterday, the result of overwhelming amounts of evidence of him leading a doping conspiracy since 1999.
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#DeepThoughtsByKeren
By KEREN BARUCH | Oct. 23, 2012"Trick or treat, smell my feet; give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care; I'll pull down your underwear." I was raised in a religious Jewish home.
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How To: throw together a last-minute costume
By RACHEL KRAMER | Oct. 23, 2012Seven days - exactly one week until Halloween. If you are one of those people who haven't thought about a costume since last November, it may seem impossible to decide which character to be.
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The NFL's five most haunted houses
By OWEN O'BRIEN | Oct. 23, 2012With Halloween a week away, it got me thinking about what scares me. Paranormal Activity movies, spiders and that feeling of knowing there's no bacon left in the house.
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Embrace the fat
By FELICIA HUNT | Oct. 18, 2012College students - especially females - know the pressure of having a perfect body. The perfect hourglass shape with perky breasts and a flat stomach is what mainstream media tell women is attractive.
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Beyond binders and blinders
Oct. 18, 2012Everyone likes a good show, and everybody was waiting for one from President Obama on Tuesday night.
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Off the press
Oct. 18, 2012Newsweek announced on Thursday that, after 79 years, it will cease print publication at the end of the year and make the move to become the first national news magazine to shift entirely to a digital format. It's the end of an era for the magazine as journalism sees a possible end to the print era, in general. Newsweek, which joined with The Daily Beast in 2010, is making a decision for its future.
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My near death brought new life
By MARKUS MCCAINE | Oct. 18, 2012I came home from lacrosse practice and began to make dinner as always. It was a normal cold January night in Buffalo. I didn't know it would be the last time I would compete on a lacrosse field. As I cooked rice, a slow, steady pain began to grow in my elbow.
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Strife in the Heights
Oct. 17, 2012The University Heights district is the definition of deplorable. It has been an ongoing talking point over the course of several years - on Monday, we reported about a student who was left homeless after his Merrimac home became infested by bed bugs, but this is not the first instance or the last.
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Bullied by Biden
Oct. 16, 2012Joe Biden is President Obama's pit bull, and someone needs to find him a muzzle. Last Thursday night pitted Big Joe Biden - the man who made the phrase "big f**king deal" famous and whose off-the-cuff comments have prompted hundreds of Top 10 Gaffes lists - and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan in the Vice Presidential Debate - a battle of wits, talking points and comebacks. What were those talking points again? The response to Thursday's debate was pretty well split when the issues were pulled apart, but in almost every argument, the topic of conversation was not how the issues were presented and debated on but on Biden's brilliant repertoire of reactions.
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The best things in life are free
Oct. 14, 2012UB recently ranked eighth on a list of the colleges and universities most actively using BitTorrent, the most heavily monitored file-sharing platform, to illegally download and swap files.
