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Ball State Unity Week event offers simulation of oppression

Exploring the life and times of Victoria Woodhull — the first woman to become a Wall Street stockbroker, a newspaper editor in New York City and run for the U.S. presidency in 1872 — was just one of many exhibits at Thursday’s Tunnel of Oppression event.


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Redditor fixes 4-year-old netcode issue in ‘Street Fighter V’

  The modder, who goes by ‘Altimor’ on Reddit, posted the fix on January 9 to /r/StreetFighter with a download link along with source code and instructions. They cite the bugs of Street Fighter V’s online mode along with Capcom’s negligence as the key reasons behind coming up with a solution. Other players are not required to have the solution downloaded, but it is still possible for one-sided rollback to occur on their end if they do not have it.





The Coven and Input2- The Oscar Nominations 2020

Welcome to a new season of The Coven AND Input2! This week we are hosting a crossover episode to discuss the newly released Oscar nominations and how they are creating controversy in the masses this year. How do these nominations encourage issues of patriarchy and racism? Do all of these nominations deserve their placings? Were there other movies that were overshadowed and deserved a nomination? Find this out and more in this week's episode of The Coven and Input2!  Hosted by: Ashley Curry, Tanner Kinney, and Shwetha Sundarrajan Edited by: Kellyn Harrison Graphic by: Katherine Simon


Female Intelligence soldiers near the southern Israeli border. Flickr, Photo Courtesy

In Between the Lines: Times of war

As a college student, I should not have to deal with the economic fallout from another war, a potential war with Iran, and neither should anybody else — not to mention the fact that war is immoral.