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Vice has stirred up a LOT of controversy with their recent Women in Fiction issue, but not for any of the written short stories or interviews that were published as part of the series. Rather, the outrage has been directed towards a fashion spread that features famous women writers who committed suicide.
The spread, named “Last Words” by the Vice staff, shows models posing as the writers at their time of death. Those featured include a model wading into water as Virginia Woolf, who drowned herself, and another solemnly kneeling in front of an open oven, paying a tasteless homage to Sylvia...
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The NSA drama deepened as 29-year-old Edward Snowden admitted to leaking last week’s government surveillance documents, claiming that citizens deserved to know that their right to privacy was being violated. Meanwhile, wildfires in Colorado have claimed lives as they rage on, uncontained. In Syria, the UN has put the official death toll from the country’s civil war at a staggering 93,000…and counting.
Want more grim but important details? Read on for this week’s NEWSFLASH!
Edward Snowden Comes Forward as Source of NSA Document Leak
The U.S. intelligence service made headlines everywhere last...
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Hazing and practical jokes have been an integral part of the Greek system from its inception, but, all too often, these pranks go way too far, as we all heard from a former Dartmouth fraternity brother last year. The latest installment in the never-ending saga of collegiate hazing was reported just yesterday at the prestigious University of Chicago’s chapter of Phi Delta Theta, Beta-Illinois.
As part of a practical joke reportedly being played by another fraternity, postal carrier Iran Becton delivered 79 packages to the Phi Delta Theta house on the Chicago campus, all of which were...
