AMP
The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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7 Horror Movies to Binge on Halloween
The fog glistened in the luminescent light of the full moon. He ran breathlessly through the graveyard; his legs burning with the acidic buildup and his breath in the cold night creating a trail behind him for them to follow. He looked back — the dank environment enveloping his senses. I’m almost there he thought, […]
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12 Steps to Getting Over Your Straight Crush
It’s the beginning of a new school year and you catch up with old faces while meeting some new. Things are going swimmingly until you inevitably meet The Bro in your science class who seems a little too comfortable with his sexuality and you find yourself falling in love — fast. Oh shit. 1. Questioning […]
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Surviving Senior Year
So you’re a senior now. Or, I guess, statistically, you probably aren’t. I realize I’m severely alienating the great majority of my potential audience with that kind of lead, but well, it’s my senior year, and through a tragic mix of obvious character flaws and lack of motivation to address any of them, I’m incapable […]
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Is the Brain Part of Our Body?
It’s common to get ill, not well, or feel feverish, right? Often, we can catch a cold and cough, or suffer from a headache, body ache and whatnot. We solve all these problems with medication, therapies, and treatments. Some people suffer from cancer, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and heart problems too, which are dealt with through a […]
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The Definitive Proof That Texas is the Best State in the Union
Throughout all of American history, there has been an argument as to which state in the Union is objectively the best. Fear no more, for I have more than enough evidence as to finally settle the debate. It’s Texas, by the way. Now, don’t get me wrong. I have plenty of bias in this area. […]
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Zeroes and Ones: The Seldom-Seen War Against Encryption
In February of 1993, two federal agents approached accused arms dealer Phil Zimmermann as part of a formal investigation into his criminal activities. Over the next three years, the FBI collected evidence of Zimmermann’s participation within a vast network of international transactions involving illegally powerful munitions, all of which he produced himself. Even after the […]
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Body Positivity and Losing Weight
When Tess Holliday’s Cosmopolitan UK cover hit stands, people had a lot to say. Piers Morgan, a British journalist, took to Instagram to say that Holliday, a plus-size model, being on the cover “is just as dangerous and misguided as celebrating size zero models,” and that the idea that this was body positive is “a […]
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Top 6 Mitski Songs for an Emotional Crisis
Mitski’s Be The Cowboy album released this August, and to celebrate the musical defibrillator that is Mitski’s lyrical sorcery, we’re counting down the top emotional breakdowns that a Mitski song has caused, not-so-loosely based off of actual events. Grab a tissue and delete your ex’s phone number, we’re just some sad kids listening to some […]
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Novel Ideas with Gabby Bevers
Who’s ready to get angsty and emotional? The first poem in Samantha King’s Born to Love, Cursed to Feel reads like a Cosmo horoscope — it hits home fairly hard but feels overly generalized. The entire first half of the book expresses how lonely and unwanted you can feel in relationships — you know, the […]
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Eleven Netflix Originals that Belong in the Garbage
When Netflix first began releasing its original content, audiences raved about the new high-quality TV shows and movies that were now readily available. (Among the best, Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, and Stranger Things.) Ah, the good old days. Since then, it seems like Netflix has been prioritizing quantity over quality. Here […]