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Bringing friendship back in the Facebook age

Elie Feinstein thinks since Facebook and other social networking sites have come along, the idea of friendship has fallen to the wayside. He says that, nowadays, your real friends are mixed in with those you’ve only met through a computer screen.

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Tweedy at Ease in Northampton

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Alternative Spring Break in the Dominican Republic

By: Gisel Saillant Part 2: The Fundraiser… Party for a Cause! Going on this trip was a strain on the shallow pockets my class, the Latin American Caribbean and Latino Studies 2009 Alternative Spring Break, had. As a class, we worked together to fundraise for the trip. As Treasurer of Casa Dominicana, an RSO on [...]

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Alternative Spring Break in the Dominican Republic

By: Gisel Saillant Part 1: Background Planning  This class has been a process… enough said.  The Latin American Caribbean and Latino Studies 2009 Alternative Spring Break to the Dominican Republic was an experience that I’m still digesting after arriving back in the U.S. Monday morning.  Maybe I should start with the battles of finding an [...]

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Molecular Playground debuts next semester

By: Emily Reynolds Any time someone visits the Museum of Science in Boston, the one place he or she must go is the virtual volleyball, to let their shadows play the game. Now there will be something similar on the UMass campus. Next fall, when the Integrated Science Building opens, there will be a “Molecular [...]

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Chipping away at life’s stress like Obama

Procrastinate your next assignment by reading this Michael Phillis column and taking some time relax and do something you enjoy ‘- much like Obama and his NCAA March Madness picking.

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America, you look so beautiful when you smile

Eli Gottlieb is taking the negative veil off the media and exposing some of the good things that are going on in America.

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Justice gets knocked out by a slap on the wrist

Tristan Brosnan is sad to report that justice has had a miscarriage ever since John Bowes got away with his hate crime against Jason Vassell.

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The price of entertainment

Money slips through the fingers of many Americans, even in time of economic pitfalls. Evan Haddad wants to know why all the money is slipping right into the entertainment industry.

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DOOM

Daniel Dumile has stayed away from full-lengths for a while, but ‘Born Like This,’ a new LP under his new moniker DOOM (named after the Marvel character Doctor Doom, formerly with a preceding MF for ‘metal face’), was released Tuesday on Lex Records.

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