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"Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road... I'm gonna ride till I can't no more"- Lil Nas X, 2019 Before Lil Nas X's new single titled "Old Town Road"(a.k.a "I Got the Horses in the Back") hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, it was first taken off the Billboard country charts for...
Are you ever hungry but too lazy to actually cook anything tasty? Well now, do I have some delicious food choices for you. After football games, soccer games, or basically after any Jesuit event, there are many enticingly greasy options around the Dallas area you and your friends can go eat at, but where do we go? We've all...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016: the day millions of Americans woke up to their Twitter feeds, news providers, neighbors, and parents bombarding them with the news that Donald Trump would be the 45th president of the United States. Millions of Americans invested the past 18 months of their lives following the election, and it had now all culminated with this...
Rushing home from school Monday morning I was filled with excitement for the first Presidential Debate, feeling as if I were about to watch a WWE match. The two candidates Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are unique characters, making this election truly unlike any others, a year to remember! Seeing these two bitter rivals in close proximity with one another gave me goosebumps. The...
They say you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. In the case of the Arizona Coyotes, the NHL simply dragged a dead horse into the middle of the desert and hoped it would sprout into a utopia. Ever since they were force-fed to the Phoenix area after being ripped from the heart of Winnipeg...
2012...what a year. We survived the apocalypse (again), our nation acquired a not-so-new president, and Princess Kate got pregnant. There was a considerable amount of drama in the media that I was completely oblivious to, so I won’t ramble on about Twilight or something of that nature. But what a year. Despite all of this insanity developing around the...
“The whole point of feminism is being equal and the playing field being equal.” — Michele Elchlepp, Theology Department Co-Chair “I guess my question is, if feminist is the negative, what would be the positive?” — Anne Blackford, Mathematics Department Co-Chair “At its core, the question to ask is ‘do you believe in equal rights?’ If you do, you believe in...
  Far away from the Land of the Free, America, the culturally rich country of France resides between Spain and Germany. It is a hotspot of great dining, historical artifacts and vibrant fashion. The “crusty” punk group Elizabeth aims to celebrate their homeland by assaulting the world with extremely heavy and unwieldy music. Although these adjectives sound questionable, they accurately describe...

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