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More adventure awaits after UNC

By Jessica Fuller | Apr. 26, 2010

As graduation nears, it is time I came clean.Out of the dark and into the light. I’m referring to blues, of course. Yep, I went to Duke.Just so we’re clear, I won’t be using this column to declare any loyalties to one or the other. I defer to the words of the great Mark Twain: “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell — you see, I have friends in both places.”

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Get some face time; eliminate Facebook

By Jessica Fuller | Mar. 19, 2010

My senior year of college, the student newspaper announced that a new Web site called “thefacebook.com” was open to our campus community.With a few clicks of a mouse, I became part of the first 50,000 users — now only a small drop in the 400 million-person networking tsunami that exists today.

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Academy Awards, Olympic edition

By Jessica Fuller | Mar. 1, 2010

It is the magical time of the decade when Olympic programming intersects with movie award show season.

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Sacri?ces are often severe for women

By Jessica Fuller | Feb. 17, 2010

Like many of you all, I read The New York Times last week.Of course I read “The New Math on Campus.” But further down the front page of the Sunday Styles section, there was another article that caught my eye.

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Double standard in getting naked

By Jessica Fuller | Jan. 28, 2010

In 1982, Scott Brown, a 22-year-old law student from Boston College, posed nude in a Cosmopolitan Magazine centerfold. He described himself as “a bit of a patriot,” but with a well-placed arm, he kept any bits of his patriot shielded from the camera.

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Dialogue on gender issues still needed

By Jessica Fuller | Jan. 13, 2010

When asked to return for a second semester of column writing for The Daily Tar Heel, I considered whether the campus still needed a voice on women and gender issues. Had everything already been said? Was it time for different voices and different issues?

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What’s the value of the food we eat?

By Jessica Fuller | Dec. 3, 2009

Everything I know about diet and exercise I learned from magazines.From years of casual research and exposure, I can tell you with little pause how many calories are in certain foods and what activities will burn them off.

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Abortion funding should be covered

By Jessica Fuller | Nov. 12, 2009

Saturday, the House passed a health care reform bill with a stipulation that no federal money can be used to pay for abortions.

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After war, comfort is in little things

By Jessica Fuller | Nov. 3, 2009

I recently went out on Franklin Street celebrating a Marine’s safe return home from Iraq. I did not know him well, but as I saw him greet old friends in the parking lot on Rosemary Street, my heart ached with how momentous this day was for him.But this conclusive victory had not brought everyone out into the streets.

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Costume should be about you, not crowd

By Jessica Fuller | Oct. 16, 2009

Ah, Halloween. Less than half a month away. The time of year when a girl’s inner kitty-cat prostitute can run free.It isn’t so much that I’m against sexy bees/nurses/Eskimos/fire hydrants/whatever, it’s more that they’re so uninspired. A shortened hem and a pair of fishnets does not a costume make.A woman who follows the list below may not get the catcalls, but she’s guaranteed to have a blast all her own.

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More adventure awaits after UNC

Get some face time; eliminate Facebook

Academy Awards, Olympic edition

Sacri?ces are often severe for women

Double standard in getting naked

Dialogue on gender issues still needed

What’s the value of the food we eat?

Abortion funding should be covered

After war, comfort is in little things

Costume should be about you, not crowd

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