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Last week’s protests against the would-be anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA got global attention; Wikipedia claims that over 160 million people saw their page denouncing the bills, and at least that many people laid eyes on Google’s “censored” logo. Now, voting on both bills has been “delayed indefinitely” due to the public outcry against them, but there still seems to be some confusion about what the fuss was about in the first place.

The Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library is now offering downloadable e-books, audiobooks, music and videos to local library card holders.

The e-books can be read on any PC or Mac computer, iPod, Android tablet, Nook, Sony Reader, BlackBerry, Windows Phone or Kindle e-reader. 

Every genre is available for download, including classic literature, historical fiction, modern literature, mystery, suspense, romance, science fiction and fantasy.

First, a word on bringing children to the theater: If your child is physically incapable of shutting up for longer than 30 seconds, take one for the team and just stay home.

So yeah, “The Lion King.”  Originally released in 1994, “The Lion King” was the last truly great hand-drawn animated movie and marked the high point of the “Disney Renaissance” that began with “The Little Mermaid” a few years before.  

The beginning of a new semester means all new classes, and with those classes come books — books that are getting more expensive.

Weeks ago, students had to choose between the long lines of bookstores or ordering online and waiting for books to arrive.
Another option the University of Mississippi bookstore offers students is allowing them to order the books online and then pick them up in a box, avoiding the hassel of finding books while everyone else is doing the same thing.

It’s here again — the political candidates campaigning like mad people in lieu of the upcoming August primaries. Every other commercial on local television is a political advertisement that begs for your vote. The advertisements can be clean, but most are not. The mud-slinging political campaigning is at an all-time high, but that is nothing new. It is the way American politics has been for the last 200 years. 

In a society where prices on goods are soaring, murder rates are shooting up (pun intended) and overall attitudes are less than positive, we have become accustomed to the fact that life is not always grand.

As humans, we naturally have a tendency to find a cure for these blues that periodically get us down.

In what seems to be a very American thing to do, we have resorted to something materialistic that is probably not so good for us: television.
Everything in the 20th century revolves around television.

Thinking of a word to describe Oxford textbook stores is difficult.

Abusive seems appropriate, but that doesn’t really convey how much they take advantage of students. Exploitative could work, but that still doesn’t cover how shady the “Big Three” bookstores are towards their customers.

Too many things come to mind, but I’m sure we can all come up with our own adjectives to define the amazing experiences we have had getting ripped off, cheated and treated like second-class citizens.

NewsWatch sits down with athletics Chaplain Jason Cook about his decision to forego the NFL for ministry.