Making a Joke of the 2012 Election
The National Monitor recently reported that “Governor Romney was the butt of 148 jokes on late-night talk show monologues, which is more than twice as many as President Obama.” Moreover, “The …
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The National Monitor recently reported that “Governor Romney was the butt of 148 jokes on late-night talk show monologues, which is more than twice as many as President Obama.” Moreover, “The …
Read MoreFinancial aid matters. It matters to nearly every college student and every parent of a college student in the U.S. Especially at Boston University Very few people can afford a …
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Read MoreIn an increasingly partisan country, one issue threatens both sides and the integrity of the democracy on which America was built. The messy and corrupt realm of campaign finance has been …
Read MoreAndy Borowitz of the New Yorker recently tweeted, “I worry that all the cheap jokes about Romney wanting to kill Big Bird will make people forget that he wants to …
Read MoreBoston University students have heard about it all too much: athletes committing sexual assaults, frats hazing, peeping toms in dorms, assaults in the library, and the Freep’s bad judgement in …
Read MoreIf I am to believe the thirteen million or so articles written on the topic, we young, twentysomething, soon-to-be college-graduates are on the fast track to Disastertown, next stop: unemployment. …
Read MoreWomen’s employment is a hot topic. In the last presidential debate, Mitt Romney set the Internet ablaze with his response to a question about women in the workforce. His “binders …
Read MoreLife at BU is a curious kind of existence. In many ways, it’s every inch an urban university. In other ways, BU is enclosed in a social, geographical, and economic …
Read MoreOn November 6, Massachusetts voters will answer Question 3: Should the state of Massachusetts legalize medical marijuana? The state statute known as the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative reads as follows: …
Read MoreCOM senior Jasmine Daniel was nervous about moving away from home and into a college dorm for the first time when she began her four years at Boston University. For …
Read MoreBoston University Academy (BUA) shares Boston University’s name and its campus, but few University students know very much about it. It’s a shame, too, because University students could probably stand …
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