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Thursday of the first week of classes is what everyone longs for, the start to the weekend. Due to the recent closing of the bar Coconut Joe's, located on third street in downtown La Crosse, Brother's was packed on Thursday night. People go crazy for wristbands and all-you- can-drink Thursdays and this past Thursday was no different.
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Why professors deem it necessary to assign a chapter exam three days before the final is beyond me. As if we weren't up to our eyeballs in final papers, projects and studying for our final that you had to throw an extra "test" in there as well. If professors are worried about not having enough points just make the final more, the extra test seems like busy work in the last few days.
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Last spring there were groups on campus trying to register as many people they could to vote in the recall election of Dan Kapanke. I don't know what these groups were telling the people they registered, but as it is election time again I will risk being slightly redundant.
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Finals are upon us. Dun dun dun. Some of us have been cuffed in the face with four cumulative finals all in the 7:45 a.m. slots Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Some of us have also been blessed by the miracle that is a vacant finals week.
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For the last few months everyone has went nuts with Rebecca Black's song "Friday." Everyone on campus had to listen to it for days on end as part of a fundraiser, and it has also made up a large portion of Facebook status updates every single Friday.
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Bikes, longboards/skateboards and walkers galore! The spring-like weather has encouraged several UW-L students to bust out their favorite transportation devices that allows a student to get where they are going quicker. Although it is great fun zooming past students walking to campus on your bike or longboard/skateboard, for everyones safety try to be a little more courteous of the people and the surroundings in order to keep the pedestrian accidents occurring on campus to the bare minimum.
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For commuters, Farwell Street has been a risky, yet beneficial way to avoid paying for a parking pass. However, when these said commuters decide to take up two parking spaces, it limits the number of drivers who can take advantage of this evasion.
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The snow has melted, the sun stays out longer, and the temperatures have risen. Shorts and flip flops have been busted out of the closets of many. Bikers are back on campus in full force. The ever active college students are again resuming their long paused games of softball and football on the once again green areas on campus.
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Weight Room: an exercise room with lifting equipment. From this definition one would think that a weight room is a place to exercise, build muscle, and improve overall health and wellness. No where in that definition does it state a place to have conversations about how drunk one got or who hooked up with whom.
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Irritating. A word filled with anxiety, hate, and annoyance. It's a word that describes the very feeling one has when Sports Center starts talking about if the Packers can win another Super Bowl. Where is the time for them to enjoy the victory? Where is the respect the team deserves? Just because they are from Wisconsin, they get zero respect.
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It is fairly awkward being in a class in which you are five years older than everyone else. Although you know you should feel like a role model, it's easier to set yourself apart and play an innocent bystander. But if there is one piece of advice to give to naive youngsters, it is this: If you are going to sleep through class, don't come! You aren't contributing anything to class by bobbing your head and drooling all over yourself and you should have some degree of self-awareness because everyone else notices.
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It's hilarious that there are classes this semester that have basically lost a week because of scheduling conflicts on the wonderful WINGS software. Not only are students being sent to Centennial Hall for classes, but others are having graduation requests because credits aren't showing up in the right place.
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