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Housing challenges force Security move
Madeleine O’Neill News Editor At the end of last semester, roughly 140 students left campus without any guess as to where they might live during the 2013-14 school year. The Residence Life office spent much of this past summer dealing with what amounted to a perfect storm of housing problems: the relatively small 2013 senior…
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Cornwell meets with students to talk tuition
Kristen Sween Staff Writer Last Thursday in the Governance Room of the Scot Center, President Cornwell, along with other members of the administration, met with students to participate in one of SGA’s Fireside Chats. This particular talk focused on an important issue to both students and faculty: tuition and budget cuts. Laurie Stickelmaier, vice president…
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Student group continues to combat rape culture on campus
Ian Benson News Editor With a report to the administration from the Committee investigating the incident at Lip Sync expected later today, the campus discussion on sexual assault has continued through the week. Students who met to discuss the original incident organized an event on Thursday called “What is Rape Culture?: Sexual Misconduct at the…
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Budget allocations cause major cuts to campus groups
The African Students Union’s budget was cut by more than 81 percent; multi-ethnic groups cut on average by 49 percent Sarah Carracher Senior News Writer The student organization budget allocations resulted in large cuts to multi-ethnic organizations’ budgets much to the chagrin of their members. All student groups, on average, were cut 38 percent, and…
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On the lighter side… 4.19.13
The world reacts with acts of kindness in the wake of the Boston tragedy Moments after the bombing first occured in Boston, reports started to come in about people’s reactions to the tragedy. While some ran away from the chaos, others ran towards it. For example, Joe Andruzzi, a former Patriots player who has three…
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Students react to recent threats from North Korea
Sarah Carracher Senior News Writer Supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un has recently threatened the United States with the possibility of nuclear strikes. These threats, which are aimed at the U.S. and its allies South Korea and Japan, are a response to the U.S.’s leading role in sanctions from the United Nations, which punish…
