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its kind, hosted by the Creative Writing program. Students of all majors are invited to the day-long program. While about half of the students are usually earning cre-DWLYH�ZULWLQJ�PLQRUV�RU�FHUWLÀFDWHV��the rest are generally English ma-jors and a mix of other majors. Wright does not mandate that stu-GHQWV� ZULWH�� +H� PHUHO\� KRSHV� WR�provide an opportunity to do so.

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from the Student Union as part of the installment of the food court. 7R�KRXVH�D�QHZ�UHSODFHPHQW�ERRN-store, the university acquired the SURSHUW\� RI� WKH� HUVWZKLOH�0DVVDG�Center, on the southeast corner of ��WK� DQG�+DUYDUG�� MXVW� DFURVV� WKH�street from the Reynolds Center.

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May of last year as construction on the food court began. The book-store moved upstairs in ACAC to ZKHUH�%HQYHQXWR·V�KDG�EHHQ�RSHU-DWLQJ��ZKLOH�ZDLWLQJ� IRU�FRQVWUXF-WLRQ�RQ�LWV�RZQ�VWRUH�WR�EHJLQ��7KH�space proved less than ideal. ´,W�ZDV�VR�VPDOO��ZH�FRXOG�EDUH-

ly get through the areas ourselves, much less have students shopping in it,” Mallory explained. This meant that clothes and supplies had to be dramatically less pre-sentable, and textbooks needed to be retrieved from inaccessible storage shelves upon a student’s request.

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a problem. I shouldn’t have to explain to DGXOWV�ZK\�LW·V�ZURQJ�WR�PDNH�VH[XDOO\�RE�MHFWLI\LQJ� FRPPHQWV� DERXW� ZRPHQ� RU� VWH�reotype an entire group of people or mock

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EHVW��´�6KRXWRXW��WR�WKH�JX\�JLUO�ZKR�SRVWHG�the positive yak. You probably made some-one’s day better!”

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you’re in a hurry, they smell fear.” Or re-ODWDEOH��´1R�PDWWHU�KRZ�EDG�WKH�FDI�LV��WKH�VQLFNHUGRRGOHV� DOZD\V� JRW� P\� EDFN�µ� ,·G�OLNH� WR� EHOLHYH� WKDW�ZH� DUH� EHWWHU� WKDQ� RXU�<LN�<DN�SRVWV�LPSO\�ZH�DUH��7KHUH�LV�DEVR�lutely no reason to continue using this app as a platform for hate and ignorance.

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THE COLLEGIAN : 8 29 SEPTEMBER 2014variety

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SCHOLARSHIP

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