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Vol XXXIV No. 56

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

  Commentaries

Coming out for Mom
Marlayna Soenneker
Here We Go Again

I would have loved to have written this column back in October on National Coming Out Day or even last week during our week of learning tolerance, but there were reasons for my delay. My mother was just here for the ... [more]
Quote of the Day
Mark Twain
author

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." Mark Twain author ... [more]
Breaking out of the bubble
Drew Olejnik
For a More Just and Humane World

We painted walls in a school, put up ceiling tiles, shadowed students and picked trash from one of the many illegal hillside trash dumps. Knee deep in filth, wading through the dirt, garbage, bones, dog carcasses and syringes, we worked with ... [more]
Struggling to rebuild
Dawn Lardner
senior

I got my first look at East Timor through the plane window while holding the hand of the girl sitting next to me. (Terrified of flying, she braved the trip to visit her mother who worked for the united Nations.) The ... [more]
Larger facilities needed
Aaron Murray
graduate student

I was more than a little disappointed in the University in their handling of the Tim Russert talk. It is not often that the students get to hear someone of his stature speak on our campus. What does the University do? ... [more]


Inside Column
Be nice to me, I'm sick.
Kelly Hager
Copy Editor

I hate being sick. Like many of you, I was attacked by the nasty flu bug. Unfortunately for me though, I never got the chance to get over it. The expected five days turned into a week, and now two. After ... [more]


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