Month: March 2015

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Cole’s Blocks: 300 and counting

Junior Cole Service-Benzing stumbled upon a business idea last summer that is proving to be extremely successful. Benzing’s grandfather started a business about three years ago creating wooden templates for electric guitars, sending them off to companies like Gibson and Fender. Benzing helped his grandfather with the marketing aspect of the business. “I noticed that...

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Admissions extends application deadline

Admissions has extended this year’s application deadline for incoming freshmen from Feb. 15 to April 15 because of additional merit scholarship donations. Also, a new Frederick Douglass Fund for need-based aid has slightly altered the focus of the admissions counselors. According to Assistant Director of On-Campus Recruiting John Papciak, there is additional merit money left...

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SAI bringing old and new

It won’t be a wedding, but the women of Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity will have “something old, something new” for campus at their spring concert 8 p.m. on March 27 in McNamara Rehearsal Hall. The women will perform popular and traditional songs with members of men’s music fraternities Phi Mu Alpha and Mu Alpha....

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Scott Walker could win for Republicans

What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Scott Walker have in common? They all changed America. And they didn’t need a college degree to do it. On Feb. 12, Democratic former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean deemed GOP front-runner Scott Walker unfit for the presidency because he dropped out of college. “The issue is, how well...

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Kids with guns: Bart to speak on gun culture

Associate Professor of English Patricia Bart will give a lecture in the Heritage Room on Friday at 4:30 p.m., entitled “Guns N’ Younguns: Growing up in gun culture.” Bart will discuss the position of guns in modern culture, as well as her perspective on what gun culture really is, or should be. “We need to...