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The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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Quarantine Qooking
Thriving with struggle meals!
Opinion
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Corona-lympics
How athletes and coaches are adapting to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics.
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Opinions Without Evidence: How the Mercury Failed its Readers
In March, The Mercury published an article by opinion columnist Michael Lockwood filled with transphobic rhetoric and incorrect information about gender transitioning, titled “I Hate Me.” Although some students have asked the Mercury to issue an apology and make corrections to this piece, they have yet to do so. We’ve decided to take matters into […]
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AMP Watches: How It Ends
How "How It Ends" Ends
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Dating: A COVID Casualty?
We get it. You’re withering away under quarantine. You’ve taken all this time to hole up inside your room, look up all the ways to trick your professors into shutting their computers down, and make stupid memes about the virus, even though we warned you that it was a bad idea. Now the only problem […]
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Top Five Pranks
It’s April, and if you’re like me, then the first thing that comes to mind when you think of April is the first day: April Fools. Although this holiday’s origin is unknown, it became fairly popular in 18th century Europe and has since spread worldwide. But some of the best pranks weren’t on April 1st, […]
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Vote Blue No Matter Who
As the Democratic National Convention draws closer, tensions are at an all time high within the Democratic Party. Nominees that we didn’t even remember being in the race have dropped out. Voters in key states like Arizona, Illinois, and Florida were expected to go out and vote during a global public health crisis. Joe Biden, […]
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We Attended Ayn Rand Con So You Don’t Have To
Are you a liberal? A socialist? A conservative? An effective altruist? I have bad news for you: According to Ayn Rand Con, you’re all irrational collectivists, and part of the problem. Ayn Rand, an author and wannabe philosopher best known for her development of Objectivism, led a train wreck of a life. She’s a guiding […]
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Monster Girl Mayhem
"Monster girls have taken over this article, and only one nondescript male protagonist can stop them!
Ed Desk
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April 2020 Ed Desk: Stay Home!
If we're going to get through the COVID-19 epidemic, we need to do it together — and do it right.
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League of Legends
Content Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of gore and death. Read at your own risk. We at AMP have been hired by Riot to design the next overpowered champion to release, and we wanted to create an even more broken character than Kassa-win and Aphelios combined. We think that with the addition of the […]
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April 2020 Ticket Stubs
Battle Royale As I’ve recently found myself with plenty of free time, I finally decided to start working through my backlog of movies I’ve been meaning to watch. Kinji Fukasku’s 2000 sci-fi/thriller Battle Royale was first on my list. My only knowledge prior to watching the film was vague references to it when talking about […]