L uke, George is no longer your father. Last Tuesday, George Lucas announced his retirement, and the sale of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion to the Walt Disney Company. The corporate giant now controls LucasArts, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Skywalker Sound, most of “Indiana Jones”… and all of “Star Wars.” The controversy among the fans...
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The Collegian Weekly
You’d hear him before you saw him. Clear, tuneful whistling. The sharp “Hey, whoa!” A wisecrack letting you know how handsome he was and how far short you fell. His wheezy laugh. Oh, Dr. Reist. The most colorful of professors, and still one of the most recognizable, even two years after his retirement. John Reist...
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Michigan’s Proposal 6: a bridge of deceit
Right now the Detroit River is a moat, and the Ambassador Bridge is a drawbridge guarded by a greedy old troll. Moats and drawbridges aren’t built to welcome traders but to discourage invaders. This is a problem for Detroit, considering the bridge connects a trade partner in Canada to our economically troubled manufacturing and agricultural...
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Elections have consequences: women, sex, and voting
“Y our first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy,” Lena Dunham says in a new campaign ad for President Obama. The minute-long YouTube clip features the star of the popular show “Girls” as she explains why young voters, particularly women, “are ready” to vote for Obama....
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Elections have Consequences: the last debate
If nothing else, the debates are great at demonstrating what a waste of time the two-party system has become. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met for the third and final debate Oct. 22 to discuss foreign policy, but nothing worthwhile occurred. Rather, the two ended up awkwardly struggling to find a...