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Photo via Business Insider Growing up in a large Italian-American family in upstate New York, I was surrounded by rich Catholic values, a deep sense of pride in hard work and achievement, and perhaps most of all, I was bounded by the…

Photo via super-lube.com The DUB would like to welcome you to go on a journey. Let’s go to the magical land of Oz, folks. Think of the tin man. Recall that enchanting moment when Dorothy found his own personal can of lubrication. A…

In a seemingly embarrassing turn of events, President Fox lost his good Patagonia fleece jacket at the ticker last weekend. After a long week of meetings with the board of trustees, his decision to let loose for the weekend turned…

In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, and the subsequent investigation that followed, Apple was asked to help with one of the shooter’s phones. The phone was locked, with the passcode unknown, so the government demanded that Apple…

By ROBERT GAKUMU GUEST WRITER One evening in 2013, my father came home and announced that the following January we would be hosting an American student from St. Lawrence University in our home. He was clutching in his hand a passport…

Photo Credit: Chicago Tribune Amid campus wide discussion on diversity, Thelmo recently unveiled an initiative to promote diversity on campus. The initiative, officially called #we<3diversity, has increased the amount of black…

Since Body Beautiful Week is doing a great job reminding us to be kind to our bodies, this article will be about a way that society is telling us not to be. Women and men alike are being manipulated, shamed, and blatantly coerced into a…

By SATCHEL TOOLE GUEST WRITER The divestment of fossil fuels is one of the most important techniques being used in the fight against the global climate crisis. What started as a movement on university campuses has expanded to cities,…