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SUNY has long been one of the best and most affordable systems of public higher education in the country. In the midst of a deepening NY state fiscal crisis, Governor Paterson has proposed a new bill—… PHEEIA—that would ostensibly revitalize SUNY, allowing for hundreds of new faculty in the next decade.

In Mass Effect 1, Commander Sheppard is given many dialogue options when speaking to Fai Dan, leader of the human colony on Feros. When he explains how screwed up the colony is, Sheppard can offer a comforting paragon reaction, or an unpleasant renegade response.

No, I am not likening the first issue of Dark Horse’s Mass Effect tie-in comic to a stewed fruit sauce. Rather, I’m referring to the issue’s protagonist, blue-skinned alien Dr. Liara T’soni, and the overload of sassiness she brings to the pages.