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...coverage of last night's election was projected onto a big screen in Loker Commons, but only a handful of students seemed to care. Most were seeking assistance with their math homework, trying to focus as occasional shouts from party faithful broke their concentration. Many were first-years...

Author: By Toussaint Losier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Calmer Scene in Loker Commons | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

Working through a calculus problem set while keeping a watchful eye on the screen, Sammy Ford '04 of Texas, said that he was "motivated...because I would not trust George W. to make life or death decisions about our country...

Author: By Toussaint Losier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Calmer Scene in Loker Commons | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

Staring at these types of things has done nothing for my thesis. My mother, who shakes her head at how much time I spend staring at my screen for a moment's worth of inspiration tells me that I need to stop staring and get a life, instead. She assures me that, in a month, no one will ever stare at my thesis, again. She calls this encouragement...

Author: By J.p. Rollert, | Title: A Note From the Underground | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...next week, of course, I really can't afford to stare at anything other than the blank spaces on my screen where words are supposed to be for the thesis I should be writing. But I've used excuses like that a lot over the past four years, and soon, they won't work anymore. I'll have to account for what I choose to spend my time staring at. And when I see terrible things like the ones halfway across the world, I'll have to stop and think about what I spend my time staring at. Then...

Author: By J.p. Rollert, | Title: A Note From the Underground | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...King-like notions of horror and human frailty. It's hardly a major killer in the global scheme of things. Even when compared to other flash-in-the-pan outbreaks, Ebola epidemics cannot, by virtue of numbers of people killed, be considered a top concern on the health radar screen...

Author: By Laurie Garrett, | Title: Yet Another Ebola Lesson | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

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