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Quickhits for Oct. 23, 2014

This Sucks


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The Wainstein report is important, but no one said this would be any fun. It’s not. We’re not enjoying receiving texts from our friends at other schools asking how many of our classes are fake. Things will improve, but we’ll have to deal with fleets of news trucks obstructing our view of the Old Well for a while.

Soup's Up

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OK, so we missed Lenoir’s cookies, but Wednesday’s lunchtime Feeding the 5,000 event wasa legitimately cool way to raise awareness about food waste. We got a free meal and T-shirt out of the deal, and we know our immune system was happy someone forced us to eat some veggies.

Ay Bay Bay

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On Tuesday, UNC’s College Republicans brought former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan to campus. It was a fun event — almost as fun as watching the event’s moderators feverishly erase the misogynistic overtones from their Facebook event, a delicate performance that proved to be its best advertisement.

Sunshine Split?

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The city of South Miami has apparently voted in favor of secession and the creation of “South Florida.” This was partly done to allow it to address climate change and rising sea levels, which Tallahassee legislators insist upon ignoring. If only North Carolina’s political backwardness were so geographically isolated.

100 to 0, real quick

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Drake’s love for Kentucky basketball is infuriating, so we’d like to think what happened Friday night was some sort of karma. At Kentucky’s “Midnight Madness,” Drake, decked out in full warm-up gear, totally airballed a shot and reminded everyone watching that he had absolutely no business being on that court.

Humble Heroes

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Shoutout to the members of the “frat circuit” detailed in the Wainstein report who Deborah Crowder complained were crowding athletes out of her paper classes. We’d like to think they were trying to force the athletes into real classes and take the hit for academic fraud themselves. Go Heels, go America!