2008 Woodie Awards
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Onset of Spring Brings Better Mood, Less Nerdy Activities
Spring can be a lot of things. It can be a coil made out of hardened steel, or a natural source of water, or a leap from one place to another. But a trip home to Massachusetts made me think of how the season combines all these awesome definitions into one especially fun time of the year.
Senior Describes Strip-Search Experience at Israeli Border
We all have certain rights as human beings. We should all have the opportunity to live freely and without humiliation. Many Palestinians face harassment and attacks upon their dignity everyday. One type of humiliation is the systematic harassment and strip searches targeted specifically at women at checkpoints.
Student Discusses Personal Battle with Prescription Drugs
Sitting in the third floor lounge of the library, next to those tall windows that let in so much light, I see an Advil bottle out of the corner of my eye. There is that subsequent rattle of pills that usually has that Pavlonian effect on me, my ears perk up like a dog's at dinner time.
Justice Department's Dismissal of Eight Prosecutors Is Partisan - And Illegal
When analyzing the controversy surrounding the dismissal of eight prosecutors working at the Justice Department, it's important to elucidate what someone means when he/she suggests that the Bush Administration fired prosecutors for political reasons. Contrary to the crafty obfuscations concocted by conservative commentators, this assertion doesn't necessarily mean 'political' in the sense that the Bush Administration wrongfully dismissed prosecutors because they disagreed with the administration on what public policy issues to investigate.
$44,000 Should Be Enough
I'd like to share with you the unnecessarily tragic story of Penny and her experience with finances during her Bates career. This is a story rife with frustrating supplementary payments to the institution already eating a whopping $44,000 of her money. Ultimately, though, justice is done as Penny votes Bates unworthy of further contribution.
Digitz
digitz 5 Number of children a Chinese woman pretended to be pregnant with. Qiao Yubo informed her husband that she was carrying quintuplets after slipping on the street and miscarrying twins. "I dared not tell this to my husband," she said of the fall.
BATES RATES
Rocky Horror Picture Show Up... Touch me, Rocky Horror! Touch me! Last week of classes down... Can I still take this pass-fail? "The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar" Author as Commencement Speaker down... A children's author is apparently all that hungover seniors can handle.