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CampusCare offers benefits  for same-sex domestic partners

CampusCare offers benefits for same-sex domestic partners

UIC has always expressed, in a variety of ways, the goal of treating every student equally and giving everyone the same opportunities regardless of their race, class, or sexual orientation. They are now achieving this goal by offering CampusCare health insurance to students involved in same-sex domestic partnerships. Full story

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Bathroom wall

UIC restrooms affecting quality of life on campus

Using a restroom on campus is an inevitable part of any student’s day, and the ones at UIC don’t always offer a pleasant experience. A missing stall lock, crude graffiti, or a puddle surrounding the toilet are only some of the issues lurking in the university’s bathrooms. Full story

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Park of the future is finally here

Park of the future is finally here

Tucked between the corners of of Adams St. and Sangamon St. is the UIC area's newest gem, the Adams and Sangamon park. Squeezed into just one square block, the new park is small and quaint, but definitely packs a lot into its limited area. Full story

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Is beauty worth it?

Is beauty worth it?

Feeling the pain after the high-heels come off

As most women will tell you, wearing high heels can be very painful. However, there is new research that indicates that wearing high heels can be agonizing even after the shoes come off. This means that high heels bring about an increase in pain, even while standing barefoot. Full story

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Misery and Company

Every single girl’s reality

Misery and Company is a web series dedicated to such a catastrophe that is the love life of an average single woman living in a city filled with false hope and morons (with the exception of the cast‘s token sassy gay man, Adam). Full story

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LAS reviews academic priorities, finances

Due to the university's ongoing budget problems, Dwight McBride, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), created an Academic Priorities Task Force to review the financial productivity of the college's departments and programs.

Features

A European education

A European education

Waking up my first day in a completely new country felt the same as waking up in Chicago, except I knew somehow that I was an outsider here. Riding my bicycle through the city I noticed the normal signs of an evolved civilization: traffic lights, sidewalks, gas stations, and 7-11’s, but everything was just a little bit different from America.

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Wiki-leaks

The reality of independent news sources

In the last few weeks Wiki-Leaks, an online data base that contains classified, and unclassified files, memos, articles, and videos from governments and corporations alike, has been under fire after receiving 91,000 secret US military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. After receiving the secret information, Wiki-Leaks published the material onto their web page.

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Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe: Fourth tour's a charm

24-year old singer-songwriter, Sarah Jaffe, gives new meaning to the phrase “one woman act”. After three tours (opening for artists such as Norah Jones and Midlake), Jaffe will be using this summer tour as a way to expand her musical horizons as she pushes her own boundaries to play numerous instruments and challenge her writing.