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The Week: Joe Biden- The only conservative running for president

Reading Time: 4 minutes Joe Biden is a conservative. Throughout his career he has taken his strongest public stands in favor of norms, rules, traditions, and institutions designed to restrain and balance competing forces in our politics. He tends not to be motivated by moral or ideological imperatives. This is abundantly clear from his long-standing record of hesitation to support impeachment as a remedy for presidential malfeasance, recently and usefully summarized in The New York Times.

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But, Does He Like Me??

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen you genuinely enjoy your own company enough that you’re seriously hesitant to give it up, it’s probably a good indicator you highly value yourself and your time. Then and only then are you truly ready to date and lined up to attract someone amazing who will be really stoked you put your time in to be ready for them.

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What’s on your impeachment playlist? Here is our soundtrack…

Reading Time: 2 minutesImpeachment is a long process. And although it looks more inevitable by the day (LINKS: Fox News Poll shows 51% favor removal, Giuliani Associates Arrested, etc) we know it will be months before Pelosi or Pence will take over. This leads us to the obvious question: what should be on your impeachment playlist? After all, we are hooked on reading the latest drama/nail in the coffin of the Trump Presidency but we shouldn’t do it in silence. We need a soundtrack to this movie. Below is some of what we’ve been listening to as the sky falls on the Orange man.

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Vox: What’s next for #MeToo? This college might have the answer.

Reading Time: 16 minutesAt this point, the college is still working on informing students that alternative resolution is an option at all. Some students remain afraid to report sexual assault because they think an investigation is their only choice, Jacoby said. Rebecca Melton, a sophomore who organized the school’s SlutWalk this year to protest the blaming of sexual assault survivors, had never heard of alternative resolution until I told her about it. In general, though, the school administration takes sexual misconduct seriously and is working to address it, Melton said. “It’s just not reaching students in a manner that it is understood by students.”

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