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Day without a gay?

The LGBT community has organized an event known as “Day without a gay,” on Dec. 10 when homosexual, lesbian, transgender and questioning individuals are encouraged to skip work in order to demonstrate how much the nation’s workforce relies on gays and lesbians. The protest event was organized in response to the recent passage of Proposition 8 in California, which reversed this year’s state Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage, according to the Associated Press. And since the Mugrat was yesterday, you know this has to be legit.
Although some may question whether or not purposely missing work is a wise form of

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Blagojevich on the fritz

After today, no one will ever forget the name of the governor of Illinois. They might still misspell it, but we don’t live in a perfect world. The governor, who looks suspiciously like a pathologically unfunny Steve Carell, stands accused of federal corruption in connection with a wiretap that revealed his plans to essentially sell off President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Illinois Senate seat to the highest bidder. On the recordings, Gov. Rod Blagojevich had conspired with his chief of staff, John Harris, to sell or trade Obama’s senate seat in exchange for financial benefits for himself and his wife, according to CNN. He reportedly

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Today's Columns

Identity politics in political parties

Zeitgeist

Since November 4th, one of the most widely discussed topics in the public sphere has been the future of the GOP in national politics. If we think back to this year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions we may see exactly why. Looking at the crowds that filled the stands at each party’s convention, the contrast could not have been greater: at the Democratic convention in Denver, we saw a highly diverse and youthful group of people who really did look like America’s future; at the Republican convention

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Fighting the Adderall zombies: Will we ever be the same?

Unfair and Unbalanced

For those who don’t know, Adderall is a stimulant prescribed to both children and adults who suffer from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and is most commonly recognized for its ability to enhance the focus of its users. To be clear, and for the purposes of this article, I will only be talking about Adderall as used by people who in fact do not have ADHD, but are using it in a more recreational sense for studying or staying awake. With that said, the idea of using the drug for this latter purpose is really quite compelling.

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Today's Letters

Pedestrians partly to blame for accidents

Letter

Thank you for calling attention to the problem of pedestrian safety in New Brunswick. It is alarming that in the past year 52 pedestrians have been struck (and one, sadly, killed) in particular because most of these incidents were probably completely preventable. While driver aggression may be responsible for most or all of the 52 driver-pedestrian collisions, I often see near misses caused by pedestrians. On any given day in the more congested

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    • Look both ways, people

    Letter

    For the past five years I have been both a pedestrian and a motorist at Rutgers University and in the New Brunswick area in general. I was saddened to hear that there have been many injuries and even a death attributed to irresponsible driving in the area, but I can honestly say I was not surprised. New Brunswick drivers and pedestrians exist at odds with each other, both assuming that they have the right of way. In my years here I have seen my