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The App That Never Was

On March 26 SA Treasurer Sikander Khan met with me to discuss his plans to unroll "SA Mobile & Cloud Services," an app from the company Virtual Academix.


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Pay the Players!

When I heard the comments made by NBA stars Dwayne Wade and Ray Allen that the Olympic players need to be paid for their services, I was shocked. I was shocked that they aren't paid already. The fact of the matter is that these guys need to be paid something for their services.


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Virtual Money Pit - Spectrum Editorial

Often, when a multitude of events come together in ways that don't seem to fit, it only takes one piece of information to bring an entire puzzle together, and into focus. On Feb.


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Moneyball

A new season in Major League Baseball means optimism for all 30 teams. Every spring fans hold out hope that this season will be "their


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A Matter of Perspective

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to


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The Reality of Reality Dance Shows

The television industry does a lot of things wrong. I think we need look no further than Snooki to see that. Reality television is a particularly fallible beast, and the new season of America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), premiering this Wednesday, proves that. This and other reality dance shows, like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars, have done nothing but disservice to a highly specialized profession that, at one time, was reserved for only the talented and the elite.


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Faculty Inequity

Over 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act was passed, which made it effectively illegal for employers to discriminate by reason of race or gender. The landmark law set the entire nation down the right road, but it has not been an easy path in all areas.


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Lesson of the Week: Don't Be a Creeper

Guys, imagine this for a moment: you're sitting in Knox 20, looking around the lecture hall in order to keep from falling asleep, and you spot her. That quiet girl from your world civilization recitation that always sits in the corner. What was her name again? Lorna? Laura?


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