The Prop 8 debate has continued in California and is not going away anytime soon. Protesters have taken to the streets in the recent days and some mild police violence has ensued in parts of West Hollywood. The question that the rest of California has is, will the protesting make a difference?

 

The answer is no, but there are others avenues bei...

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It’s not a typical day at JMU if you don’t hear someone (either the guy that just found out he’s got “the clap” from his weekend triumph or the girl that can’t stand hearing her roommate attempt to have drunk sex until she finally passes out) calling a girl a slut, hoebag, whore, etc. It’s also become expected to be called these names by the tra...

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Last week about 1,500 Bay Area college students peeled themselves off their couches after 4/20 and hustled up to Sacramento to protest the Governator's proposal to cut the higher education budget statewide. The cuts will effect not only campus services and class availability, but also tuition costs (which have been rapidly on the rise in Califor

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This week marks the 40th anniversary of the incendiary Students for a Democratic Society protests and campus-take over at Columbia University, which resulted in a police raid and 712 arrests. Columbia's protest was a galvanizing force in the anti-Vietnam-war momentum of that year, in which students played a massive role.

So why not celebrate..

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