Embrace change by getting involved in campus

( PUBLISHED 31 AUG. 2004)

Change is good.

It takes place on every college campus from year to year. New students replace departed graduates. Buildings are added and existing ones remodeled. Departments move to different buildings. Change is vital at UAA, which is looking to grow and become a more traditional college each year. Changes are taking place on campus and they are for the better. Keep this in mind if you are inconvenienced at some point.

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Identity crisis

(PUBLISHED 31 AUG 2004)

I know that writers are supposed to listen in on what’s going on around them—scribbling ideas on secret notepads—but playing the part of the spy makes me squirm. Besides, in this day and age, who needs to listen in? People talking on their cell phones are already displaying their private lives for the world to see via top-volume exchanges in public places in which every possible social situation is carried out: breakups, organ donations, phone sex. “I’m wearing pink underwear! What are you wearing? What? Sorry! Can you hear me now? I said—”

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