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Quickhits for Nov. 20, 2014

Cold World

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You think it’s cold outside? At least you can go outside. The Niagara women’s basketball team spent 26 agonizing hours stuck on their team bus on the way back to campus between Tuesday and Wednesday. Blame the NCAA, who’d probably call being dug out of a snowdrift an “impermissible benefit.”

Have a cool yule

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Those UNC Christmas sweaters — excuse us, sweatshirts — are pretty dope. For the thousands of UNC students who’ve felt too cool to don traditional Tar Heel regalia, these ironic pullovers allow even the hippest Carrboroite to announce his or her love for (or even a general acknowledgement of) UNC. 

Cavalier attitudes 

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Rolling Stone’s exposition of a prestigious southern university’s maliciously inept response to sexual assault came as little surprise to anyone who’s spent any time at a prestigious southern University in the past few years (ahem). But holy hell. It’s easy to forget how things get that bad. This has to stop.

Cheerwhinny

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For one beautiful day, fans of the TV show “Parks and Recreation” got to cosplay as residents of Pawnee, Ind., a fictional town where a famous tiny horse is the one thing that brings everyone together. In these difficult times, a Li’l Sebastian lookalike was just what this campus needed. The free Cheerwine helped, too.

#Innovation

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Reports surfaced this week that Uber executives were considering spying on reporters investigating its reputation for brushing off safety concerns and for generally being less than courteous to unhappy customers. Uber, if you’re looking for dirt on us, we’ll save you the trouble: Tarheel Takeout has it. 

That was close


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Herman Cain, our favorite pizza tycoon, visited campus Tuesday to remind us that at one point he was somehow leading the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Wow. A late flight delayed his speech, but we got an excellent Ronald Reagan calendar for our troubles, so it could have been a lot worse.