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Meet Sewanee's 16th Vice Chancellor, Dr. John McCardell

Dr. John McCardell’s shook hands with hundreds of “excited” Sewanee community members Monday evening in Convocation Hall. Excited is the buzz word concerning Dr. McCardell’s election and acceptance as the 16th Vice Chancellorship of the University.

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Sewanee Takes Stock After Recession of 2009

While hundreds of colleges across the nation are tightening their belts after watching the Recession of 2009 attack their money pools, Sewanee is no different. Fortunately for the University of the South, they have treasurer Jeff Forester cutting costs and forecasting that the school’s overall 1% decline can only get better.

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Would the Health Care Bill Affect College Students?

With the health care bill teetering on the edge of collapse as democrats lose ground in Congress, the question of how it could affect college students and recent graduates may not seem relevant anymore. The content devoted to young adults within the more than 1,900 page bills of the House and Senate might imply that college students should not care at all.

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Shabby Guide to Srat Pledgeship

So you've worn your most memorable statement necklace and made strained small talk while nervously picking at an assortment of vegetables in the hopes of not appearing greedy, or God forbid, someone who actually enjoys eating, and hopefully last Saturday you got into the sorority of your choice.  Seemingly the hard part is over, right?

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The 2010 Massachusetts’s Senate Race: Obama’s Waterloo or the Freeze before Valley Forge?

On January 19th, 2010 the voters of Massachusetts fired a shot heard around Capitol Hill. The seat of the Liberal Lion and strongest advocate for Comprehensive Healthcare Reform, Ted Kennedy, was lost by democrats and placed into Republican hands.

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Slaying the “Sophomore Slump” or: Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Sewanee

It seems that, for many, sophomore year is something like waking up on a Sunday afternoon with hazy recollections of an alcohol-drenched weekend. As sophomores stagger from the surreal honeymoon suite of freshman year and squint into the not-so-sophomoric light of reality, they tend to react poorly, little wonder upon closer inspection.

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Dr. Cameron and His Strange Blue Friends; Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 3-D Revol

As Avatar’s worldwide gross sky-rockets towards $2 billion, having already passed Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all-time (worldwide, although the all-time domestic record seems imminent), it seems hard to believe that the film was initially met with such hostile skepticism, the first trailer being derided—as the gentleman next to me in the theater at the time so charmingly put it—as a “f—— cartoon.” But now as James Cameron and company march toward the bank, picking up award after award on the way, the criticism has mostly died down, the public now declaring the film a revolutionary epic for our time, better even than Star Wars.

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“Roo Clues”

Driving west on I-24 towards Nashville, the site can easily be mistaken for just another farm.  For the tens of thousands who attend the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, however, the site is something sacred, a Mecca of sorts for music fanatics.  Along with the attendees themselves, over a hundred musicians, comedians, and other performers converge in the little town of Manchester, only twenty minutes north of Sewanee, for the annual festival.

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Sewanee Swimming: A Winter Recap

 While training 5 hours a day in Clermont, Florida, for the last seventeen days of Christmas Break, the Sewanee swim team competed against the Top-20-Ranked Division II team at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.  Although worn out from a week of hard training, the Sewanee Women defeated the Rollins Women by 2 points, while the Sewanee Men lost by 20 points. 

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Finding Their Footing

The Sewanee Men’s Basketball Team from the Break until Now.

While the majority of the Sewanee student descended the Mountain for winter break, the men’s basketball team remained, queuing up for eight games to be played before classes started back.

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