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...most negative reaction” came when it was announced that the largest size of boxes had sold out within “eight to sixteen minutes.” Within an hour, all the new boxes had sold out completely. Pointing out that this will be the last function that the Campus Life Committee (CLC) will ever coordinate, Litman said that “people that had any doubts about whether 2x2 was the way to go should take this as a sign,” referring to the recent initiative passed to cut the size...
...adult pop album this year. Musically, Taking the Long Way is full of swaggering country-tinged rock hooks--like a peak Eagles record, except without the misogyny and drug references and the advice to Take It Easy. Instead the songs aspire to do what the best pop always does, function as a smart expression of its creators' lives while remaining accessible to its listeners'. There are allusions to the recent past--on the jubilant opener The Long Way Around ("It's been two long years now/ Since the top of the world came crashing down") and the breakup song Everybody...
...Clarity,” and “Overall Quality,” the last of which is a combination of the “Helpfulness” and “Clarity” ratings. The site also includes a “Hotness” function, whereby the sum of “hot” (+1) and “not hot” (-1) votes is displayed, unless it is a negative, in which case the site shows up a zero in order to prevent embarrassment for the not-so-pretty professors. The Central Michigan study...
...from the Ooze Scientists are hailing Tiktaalik Roseae, or the fossil "fishapod," as evidence of evolution [April 17]. Yet in the same article, they admit that the elongated fin of the fishapod would have been "worse than useless" on land and that the appendage is only "anatomically" - and not functionally - intermediate between lobed fins and legs. If some level of function does not follow anatomical form, then natural selection has nothing to work upon to produce legs from fins. That article presented more evidence of the grip that evolution has on the mind of scientists than...
...what should a third committee do” discourse in the past few weeks, and the proposal of an OSC in spite of this reality suggests that UC members were struck with a pretentious amnesia of one simple fact: The UC exists to serve a function, functions don’t exist to serve the UC.Since the UC refuses to redress their ineptitude when it comes to restructuring, students should do so. We call on students to exercise their constitutional right to organize a petition and force a referendum on UC reform. Specifically, we advocate the dissolution...