Category Archives: General

Spring Break Culture: The desire for escape can lead to both terrible and amazing things

The week is upon us UCF students to take a break form our studies and go out into the world and drink it’s fine spirits. By drink, I mean get blacked out drunk and do stuff you would never normally …

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A University of Central Florida Student Assaulted and Robbed at Gunpoint Walking Home from Knight’s Pub

Two students were jumped walking home from Knight’s Pub, just behind Sterling Central. The victim said it happened in the middle of Aristotle Avenue, the road right next to Sterling Central. Two students were walking back to the Phi Delta …

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Putin to world, give me the Black Sea!

Vladimir Putin is no slouch. He has orchestrated one of the more cleaver undertaken in the past decade over these last few years. It started when Russia were awarded the rights to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, and snowballed into …

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Recap: 2014 NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, LA

News Photo: Musician Gary Clark Jr performs the National Anthem…

 

NBA All-Star Weekend was held this year in the always festive New Orleans, LA home of the Pelicans. All-Star Weekend couldn’t have come at a greater time for me, just in time for basketball to fully capture my attention …

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Is Social Media a Platform for Revolution?

Over the last couple of days I noticed that people constantly resort to social media (Facebook, Twitter,YouTube, etc) to share stories regarding social change. It made me wonder if the ability of voicing one’s opinion through social media is enough …

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10-ton Australian icon stolen overnight gains worldwide attention

Australia is known to be the land of ‘big things’. From the Big Banana in Coffs Harbour, the Big Merino in Goulburn, or the Big Guitar in Tamworth, there is over 150 big things around Australia. The novelty sculptures were …

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To Work or Study: The choose to work while going to school and the consequences of doing so

As we know, the prices of school have shown a steady increase in the last few years with no sign of slowing down. Students sometimes have to work to put themselves through college, but doing so comes at a price. …

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Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill can imprison gay people for life!!

 

This evening the president of Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni, expressed to CNN how he is disgusted by homosexuals. After signing an anti-homosexuality bill that made homosexuality laws tougher on gays in Uganda President Museveni said, that he had commissioned …

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Earnhardt Jr Wins Spectacular Daytona 500

In a race that featured the return of Dale Earnhardt’s famed #3 car, it would be his son winning the great American race for the first time in ten years and his first victory in the Sprint Cup Series since …

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Arizona passes anti-gay legislation; segre(gay)tion?

Arizona recently passed a law that allows any business owner to deny their services to the LGBTQ community under the grounds of religious belief.  While it isn’t the only state with such legal action in motion.  For example, Kansas was …

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