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I write to you today with a question about sex. Let me explain the series of events that brought me to this question.
I was studying with a friend of mine last week. I had been working on a religious studies paper, while my friend was working on something from his psychology course. He asked me what my opinion was on a question from his assignment. As I looked over the sheet to see what exactly he was talking about, I read the course name at the top of the sheet: “Human Sexuality.” A question rushed through my mind: why would a Christian university have a course on human sexuality? Based on what you have read so far you think that I am some kind of religious fundamentalist. I can tell you that this is not the case.
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February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It is 2 a.m. and you are battling your way up the mountain. The snow is merciless and you fear that the animal noises emanating from the stalking shadows aren’t exactly amicable. Your shivering hands are holding a hanging lantern that barely gives off enough light to show the way. Electricity and warmth are a distant memory. And, for that matter, so is a good night’s sleep.
Going to bed at 9 p.m. and waking five hours later is not the usual university schedule. Then again, Min-Seung Song isn’t your usual university student. While his peers were studying in classrooms, this South Korean business student found himself living with several Buddhist monks in their secluded Asian monastery.
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February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
VICTORIA (CUP) — Critically examining several sources sounds like something from an essay outline. But outside the classroom, we must do this to get an informed idea of global politics. A recent CNN broadcast on Iran’s nuclear ambition is a good example of how mainstream media shows only part of the story.
Early in January, a senior Iranian legislator announced that Iran had begun to install 3,000 new centrifuges, devices used in enriching uranium to produce nuclear power. That’s up from the 350 they’d been running since April last year.
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February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
RAYMOND RESPONDS
Dear Editor,
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February 8, 2007 | 3 Comments
When I read the headline of “Not looking for happily ever after” in the last issue of Mars’ Hill, I knew that I was going to be confronted with another fairy tale-bashing commentary.
Personally, I am sick and tired of fairy tales being blamed for the relationship issues that women have today. I agree that waiting around for something so far in the clouds that even Jack’s beanstalk couldn’t reach it is, in Sarah Endacott’s words, “far from healthy.”
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Thanks to globalization, our world has become smaller and smaller. Feats of technological genius now allow corporations to conduct their business around the world with rapid speed and relative ease. Internet service providers’ employment of call centers on the other side of the world no longer provokes astonished muttering. We now expect to find a “Made in China” sticker on the bottom of a toy. And the fact that the latest iSomething contains chips and parts from a dozen different countries doesn’t even earn a raised eyebrow.
