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Exposing Masters' hazardous history

IN A DRAMATIC fashion, Tiger Woods won the Masters on Sunday. In so doing, Woods became the first professional golfer ever to win four consecutive "major" titles - the PGA Championship, the British Open, the U.S.


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Deifying athletes damages academics

EVERY year as the NCAA men's basketball tournament rolls around, a nationwide frenzy erupts as children, college students and adults alike gather around their television sets in eager anticipation, wondering - as the competition slowly narrows - which of their beloved teams will make the trip to the Final Four, or even (God willing), the championship game. With the championship game and the chaos of the past few weeks still fresh on our minds, it's time to step back and ask ourselves a very important question: What the heck are we doing?


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Advising faculty on first-year academic concerns

THE TIME is approaching faster than most would prefer to admit. The ISIS man is dusting off his keyboard, professors are practicing their signatures in anticipation of course action forms and students are beginning to hoard Course Offering Directories.


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Surveillance should remain foreign concept

I THOUGHT that Congress had discontinued witch hunts. I also thought that this country supports intellectual curiosity among all nationalities. So I was shocked to read that the government has decided to fight terrorism with a databank that monitors foreign students studying in the United States and will make them pay the cost.


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Undressing sweatshops

THIS SUMMER while most of us will be working internships, profitable summer jobs, traveling abroad or attending summer school, other young people our age in developing countries around the world also will be working.


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Poor student motives

IN JUST over a month, stu-dents will walk down the Lawn for the last time, as graduates. And if your commencement is anything like mine in high school, I'm sure you heard the line about being "the future leaders of our country" as many times as you skipped class senior year.


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Flawed schoolwork study

SEVERAL months ago, members of the University administration made a veiled threat to students, suggesting that the future of Fall Break was in danger if students kept using the reading holiday as a time for vacation.


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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.