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I&#8217;d much rather pay a couple grand and not deal with it. Sure, I\u2019ll probably have to shave somebody\u2019s balls or something, but I&#8217;m all about convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Alpha Sigma Sigma president Chad Brentburg, this is the exact type of student they have been looking to recruit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all have better things to do than go to floor meetings or club call-outs where you might not actually get along with anybody. In ASS, we guarantee all pledges will have a bro or two to play FIFA with, as well as provide them with all the crazy stories other students get in college, minus all of the emotional attachment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At press time, Bledsoe was reported to be writing a personal ad, seeking a girlfriend for a monthly rate of $990 or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Jacopo Inboden and Bismo Falcor BLOOMINGTON, IN &#8211; After completely ignoring all of the university\u2019s resources which allow students to make friends for free, local freshman Tim Bledsoe decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[145,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local","has_thumb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hoosierflipside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Money_9_18.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7b5Hd-cS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":905,"url":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/divorce-rate-skyrockets-following-successful-dads-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":798,"position":0},"title":"Divorce Rate Skyrockets Following Successful Dad&#8217;s Weekend","author":"Hoosier Flipside","date":"November 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By: Fannie Wanker Carmel, IN -- Indianapolis divorce lawyers have seen a huge upswing in divorce filings following what can only be described as a successful Dad\u2019s weekend. 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