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NEWSThe Athletic Department will consider a draft of an alcohol policy that would create a uniform standard preventing alcohol usage among all athletes. Currently, alcohol usage is handled differently among each team and coach in the department, which creates discrepancies when handling the misuse of alcohol.
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STYLEWatching Hotel Rwanda was one of the hardest and yet most sincere moments that I had ever experienced. By the end of the movie, everyone in the theater was weeping with the deepest grief. This is not a movie that anyone can walk away from without feeling strangely changed. Read more...
SPORTSBridgewater College pounded out 18 hits en route to an 18-0 rout over the baseball team in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference game on Tuesday afternoon. Read more...
BURG"Springfest in the Valley" with Steve Wingfield was a weekend-long evangelism project that incorporated bands, games, skateboarders, and Steve Wingfield.
On Saturday night, Kutless, Hawk Nelson, tobyMac, and Audio Adrenaline played at the Convocation Center with multitudes of teens screaming for more throughout the night.
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OPINIONThe ancient Greeks were fascinated by the idea of a "natural" way of life or ethic. Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), for example, held that humans ought to live according to nature and that a life lived according to nature would be a happy life. Read more...