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My World: Let’s Think About Spring Break!

Have you been working too hard at school this semester? With all the stress that comes with attending college, every now and then you need a break from all the books, scheduling, homework, and just all the anxiety that comes with school. Spring break is right around the corner, and […]

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Let’s Have a Conversation About Safe Sex

If one is taking a trigonometry class and has not taken any math courses in years, he or she will struggle. However, every day, pupils are forced to rely on information that they learned years ago in middle school or high school when it comes to having safer sex. Many, […]

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LGBTQ Message: Just Be Yourself

I have one thing to say about the UC Main Campus LGBTQ organization: Fantastic! It felt very powerful being in a room full of such diversity. With members of the community, as well as allies and others, such as myself, there for the first time to be “initiated,” it was […]

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The Tea Party and the Government Shutdown

While at dinner with friends recently, I was informed that people like me are bankrupting the country. The shutdown of the government was supposed to show that extreme conservatives, also known as the Tea Party, are the common sense fiscal balance for the country. I listened to the argument that […]

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My World: Winter Break and Wanderlust

Ahhh, midterms are over, and there are only about six weeks of school left in fall semester. For some of us, graduation is just right around the corner. Everyone else is just ready for winter break. Winter break is an excellent time to plan a trip-if you’re going somewhere warm, […]

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My World: The Decline of Lake Cumberland

This summer I had the privilege of being able to work at Beaver Creek Marina down at Lake Cumberland.  It was awesome. When I wasn’t cleaning boats, I was sitting at the gas docks partaking in the local illegality-beer.    But with all this time to sit and think, I […]

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The Disabilities Office Can Change Your Life

The UCBA Disabilities Services Office (DSO) is located in the far right corner of the computer concourse on the first floor of Muntz across from the library. Like all public institutions, UCBA is required by the federal government to provide reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified students. “Otherwise qualified” means that […]

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Science Tutoring Lab Gets New Peer Tutors

UCBA Science Tutoring Lab Director Daniel Landfried has welcomed some new enthusiastic students in the Science Learning Lab to help tutor their peers. These new tutors are stepping up, excited to help their peers with courses they have previously taken and courses they are currently enrolled in. One of the […]

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My World: Just Say Yes: Be an Organ Donor

Taking the time to read this could save someone’s life, and if enough of your friends read it, someday your life may be saved. I would like to ask you a question: are you an organ donor? If you are, thank you. If not, why not? Most people never think […]

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To the NSA-Is It Time to Put Your Vacuum Cleaner Back in the Closet?

In May of 2013 it was revealed to the American public that the National Security Agency, or NSA, had been collecting metadata through a secret program called PRISM, which stands for “Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management.” PRISM is a tool created to collect, process, and sort intelligence […]