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MELANIE BACON


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Using wisdom and wit to fight mid-semester boredom

Symptoms: Feeling dull, tired, and lacking enthusiasm for life.Prognosis: Boredom of the worst kind, the mid-semester slump.An ailment that strikes everyone at one time or another, especially on those all-too-familiar days when it's too windy to "go fly a kite" or too cold to do anything outside but catch a cold.Those suffering from boredom may feel that they will never be cured, but there is hope for those willing to try a dose of imagination and innocent mischief.


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Wanna buy a date?

Money may not be able to buy love, but it did buy dates Friday night in the Student Union as a charity event came close to being a strip show.As part of the festivities surrounding Spirit Week, the Community Action Corps (CAC), a student volunteer and community service organization on campus, held a date auction Friday evening in the Student Union.All of the proceeds went to benefit Friends of Night People, a soup kitchen and homeless shelter in Buffalo, and will be used for facility renovations, food and overall advancement to help those in need of the group's services."The donations will be added to money raised at the last CAC event held Friday September 29th, which was the Night Out," said CAC treasurer Joshua Feuerstein.Students filled out a brief survey and submitted it to become a contestant and about 15 students were auctioned off in total.


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Student service helps the tax-filing challenged

As students deal with test deadlines and paper due dates, one dreaded deadline approaches that any student who works winces in anticipation: April 15, the income tax filing deadline.The idea of tabulating refunds, claims and deductions is daunting for every major, from English to physics.


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Student service helps the tax-filing challenged

As students deal with test deadlines and paper due dates, one dreaded deadline approaches that any student who works winces in anticipation: April 15, the income tax filing deadline.The idea of tabulating refunds, claims and deductions is daunting for every major, from English to physics.


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