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Weed Decriminalized in Massachusetts

Weed Decriminalized in Massachusetts

Election time is full of news, and it's important, but the consequences of voting will take a while to come to fruition. 

 

One bit of election news that may be more relevant for Massachusetts residents is the status of Question 2.

 

It's not yet final, but it's looking like Question 2 is going to pass in Massachusetts.  All of the votes have no...

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Women Without College Degrees More Likely to Become Unmarried Baby Mamas

Women Without College Degrees More Likely to Become Unmarried Baby Mamas

According to a recent Northeastern University study, the number of women under the age of 30 having children out of wedlock is the highest it has ever been. In fact, more women are having children outside of the bonds of marriage than within them.

 

Not surprising considering we live in an age where baby-having unmarried celebrities, like Jamie ...

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Latest comment by Jessica Almanza: I'm pretty sure Britney was married when she had her babies, you're thinking of her sister - Jamie-Lynn.

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Mayra Rosales, Obese Felon, is Too Fat for Jail

Mayra Rosales, Obese Felon, is Too Fat for Jail

In trouble with campus safety? Well, you could always try pulling a Mayra Rosales. The 1,000 pound woman is currently under house arrest for beating her 2-year-old nephew to death but has not been incarcerated because authorities have not yet been able to determine a cell and bed large enough for her.

 

According to the Houston Chronicle:

Mayra...

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Latest comment by JTeverett: No this story is true, I should know because I wrote a thing about it a week ago

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Nathan Sawaya Plays with LEGOs, Earns Six Figures

Nathan Sawaya Plays with LEGOs, Earns Six Figures

A note to college students who think they’re too old to play with toys: check out Nathan Sawaya, a 35-year-old artist who gave up his job as a corporate lawyer to make sculptures out of LEGOs. Sawaya is currently showing an exhibition called “The Art of the Brick” at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philly.

 

According to Conde Nast Tra...

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Do This Stuff Before You're Dead like Gene Upshaw

Do This Stuff Before You're Dead like Gene Upshaw

When it comes to video games, sudden death can be pretty thrilling. When it comes to people, not so much. Lately, we’ve had a lot of famous people cutting out early though, from Gene Upshaw to Bernie Mac. So, to be perfectly morbid, here’s a list of things to do now— since who knows if you’ll be around in forty-five minutes.


1) Make yourself a ...

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SPAM Pollutes Facebook

SPAM Pollutes Facebook

Spam, it's the evil that lurks in the dark corners of Junk Mail folders offering bigger penises and dating services for the married folk. This completely unnecessary evil has polluted email, Myspace and now worst of all – Facebook!

 

Obnoxious messages are circling the Facebook community vowing that the ever-expanding social network will explod...

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McCain Looks Less Old Than Usual

McCain Looks Less Old Than Usual

Bam Bam might not need any work done on his smooth 47-year-old face, but there are some not so lucky, namely, John McCain, who looks like he’s been detained for a few years as a POW in Vietnam—oh wait, he has.

 

Recently his face was looking a lot more like the plains than the Rocky Mountains, though, which led to some speculation. An article pu...

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The Best & Worst Off-Campus Housing

The Best & Worst Off-Campus Housing

The Boston Globe reported that a new housing project for UMass Lowell was halted because the public construction project never went through state bidding; it was just handed off to a private developer. Now this over packed campus will have to wait a long while before appropriate housing is built to accommodate its students. 

 

UMass isn’t the ...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: wow, ridiculous. I've steered clear of off-campus housing that is still affiliated with the university. I lived in Boston for years and always lived in either dorms or in apartments.
I found a great apartment thr

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MIT Students Forced To Tell All

MIT Students Forced To Tell All

The MBTA Triple Threat is getting bogged down with more questions today. A federal judge ordered the three MIT hackers to supply the court with more answers. The MIT students hacked into MBTA fare systems and were rumored to be talking about revealing their plan's hairy details at well-known hacker convention, Defcon 16. 

 

The MBTA took the rum...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: "hacking into the MBTA" is simply discovering a fatal flaw in the charliecard encryption system, which was very poorly designed.

Interestingly enough, they weren't going to divulge this information at DEFCON,

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Univ. of Nebraska Wrestlers Outted for Gay Porn

Univ. of Nebraska Wrestlers Outted for Gay Porn

When a college gossip blog, The Scarlet Project, broke the news that two University of Nebraska wrestlers had appeared on a gay porn website, Fratmen.tv, students were left saying, “Oh snap!” The two students, Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan, compete in the 125 lb. division and the 133 lb. division, and this somehow was an uproariously unexpected ...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Oh boy, Like you straight people don't masturbate. Its not just a gay thing you hippocrits.

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Make Way for Hot Internationals On Campus

Make Way for Hot Internationals On Campus

When girls think of international students – they think of sexy Armani-clad foreigners with steamy hot accents and a weird world of knowledge unbeknownst to American culture. The international students on campus are among the hottest and most sought after for their foreign appeal, and it seems that we’ll soon be receiving a whole load of them.

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Top 5 College eBay Scams

Top 5 College eBay Scams

Remember when that fantard bought toast half-eaten by Justin Timberlake from eBay in 2000? Well looks like college students are also finding unusual ways to hustle on the site. Here is our list of the Top 5 College eBay Scams.


1) Zack Ketz, a 30-year-old man recently accepted to University of Virginia as a transfer student, posted an ad on eBay...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: lol, college students putting the college up for sale. What is even better is that people were bidding that high.
www.the****ingday.com

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Every week, the fine folks at SI on Campus release their pick for “Cheerleader of the Week.” This week, they chose Lacee Landers from the University of Miami.

 

Last week, the Princeton Review released its list of the top party schools in the country. Today, Co-ed Magazine compiled pictures from the University of Florida, University of Mississip...

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Co-ed Magazine’s Howard blogger, Ron, reported that several major universities, including Penn, Yale, UMass and Tufts, are considering banning beer pong. Oh, the horror!

 

Over at College Candy, a Northeastern student suggested that Paris Hilton should run for president in November. “That’s hot.”

 

The former president of South Carolina State Un...

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Beer Marathon Coming To a City Near You!

Beer Marathon Coming To a City Near You!

The marathon - a phenomenon that has riveted everyone from the ancient Greeks to P.Diddy. Since Diddy's 2003 successful NYC marathon run, it seems it's become out of fashion to run 26.2 miles for no apparent reason. Thankfully the Hash House Harriers, "a drinking club with a running problem," have combined their two favorite pastimes to make a u...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Well it is time to have the 2nd 30 Pack Beer Marathon for those who show intrest.

Saturday July 25th, 2pm

Digg's Tavern, 4108 N Mesa St., El Paso, West Texas

$25 gets you the shirt, food and all the frosty beverage you can ingest

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Rez(life) Mag Doesn't Need Sex to Sell

Rez(life) Mag Doesn't Need Sex to Sell

The marketplace is littered with tons of magazines, and now Marc Andrew Deley is throwing his publication into the heap. Ironically, the Boston College dropout started a magazine written for college students by college students. Can he even use that tagline if he's no longer in college?


Started at BC and distributed for free at colleges around ...

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Latest comment by The Candle: If you read carefully, you'll see I did mention it is free. What I meant was whether college students would figuratively "buy" the concept, not literally pay for the magazine, though I understand the confusion.

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New Interview Trend Shakes Things Up

New Interview Trend Shakes Things Up

* If you could be any character in fiction, who would you be?


* If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role?


* If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?


* If you could compare yourself to any animal, which would it be and why?


* If you were a salad, what dressi...

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Can't Find a Job? Work for Mom and Dad!

Can't Find a Job? Work for Mom and Dad!

The economy sucks. While everyone is feeling the brunt of the poor job market, those that are looking for a summer job are being hit the hardest. According to a report from Northeastern University, this summer’s job outlook is the worst in 60 years.

 

Despite this bleak time period, all is not lost. For those summer job seekers, one option is to...

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Latest comment by LCE: i'm definitely guilty of working for my parents...and i'm definitely NOT doing it again.

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Report Suggests Colleges Need Better Security

Report Suggests Colleges Need Better Security

A new “report,” compiled by a team of “specialists,” criticizes the lack of security on college campuses, specifically in Massachusetts. It includes ways of improving campus safety in order to prevent another Virginia Tech-like incident.

 

Because the Virginia Tech gunman had mental health issues, this report urges administration and campus poli...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Greeks are the social kids who are too busy partying to plan mass death.

The people you need to worry about are those whose undying jealousy drives them to the brink of insanity.

So loners are th

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$10 Well Spent: Miss Boston 2008 Finals

$10 Well Spent: Miss Boston 2008 Finals

Event:  Miss Boston 2008 Finals

Location: The Felt Nightclub, 533 Washington St.

Time: 9:00 pm         
                
Cost: $10.00

The details:
This event is described as “Boston’s sexiest event this summer,” and even if the event doesn’t live up to its “sexiness” you are guaranteed to have a good time. If you missed the first two porti...

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