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Seton Hill students and faculty welcome new study abroad programs | 04/19/08 |
| As the study abroad program at Seton Hill University (SHU) has grown in recent years, students have visited London, France, Mexico, Poland, Italy, and Greece on faculty-led tours during January and May-terms. Coming this May are new journeys to Italy and France, and, and a first for SHU, China.
Tyler Jones, a junior, went to Mexico in January and is looking forward to China this spring. |
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Social Security: wouldn’t you like to keep it around? | 04/04/08 |
Take a look at the last paycheck you received and note how much was taken out for Social Security. Now multiply it by all the paychecks you ever expect to receive, and multiply it again for the fact that when you’re making more than minimum wage, you’ll be paying out more for Social Security.
But that’s alright, isn’t it? All the money that you’re paying out will come back to you to sweeten your retirement, won’t it? |
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Librarian featured on Jeopardy | 04/04/08 |
Recently ranked by TV Guide as number two among the 50 greatest game shows of all time, Jeopardy! has been a staple of prime-time television for more than 40 years. On Thursday, May 22, 2008, Seton Hill University’s (SHU) own Judith Koveleskie, periodicals librarian for Reeves Memorial Library, will appear on the show.
Koveleskie first entered the contestant pool in January 2007 with an online test at www.jeopardy.com. By the time the show’s producers contacted her in December to tell her that she’d done well enough to move on to the next qualifying round, “I’d kind of forgotten that I’d even took the test,” she said. |
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This one’s for the girls: Straight talk about sexism | 03/14/08 |
Recently I was compelled to read and discuss for class an article (from a textbook billing itself as The Best American Magazine Writing, 2006) that was driven by this assumption: American women are the oppressed victims of a sexist society.
The article cited statistics about the low numbers of women working in the fields of news-writing and political commentary, taking the numbers themselves as proof of unfair hiring practices and refusing to acknowledge any possibility other than that mean, bad men were refusing to hire women for these positions. It dragged up the old statistic that the average woman earns only 75% of what the average man earns. |
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Candidates race for presidential nominations | 02/14/08 |
If you haven’t been paying attention to the races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations, you ought to, because it’s the first time we’ve had interesting primary races in more than 50 years. They’re interesting because usually each party has nailed down who its nominee will be after the third primary, and primaries held in the other 47 states serve as a mere formality. This year we’ve got a real race - roughly 30 states have held their primaries, and while we’re closer to choosing our two nominees who will run against each other in the general election, this race is by no means settled.
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Political Commentary: A progress report for those who may have missed it | 12/03/07 |
In case you missed it, this month, the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry division of the U.S. Army came home from Iraq. They will not be returning. They will not be replaced.
They’re coming home because they have succeeded in their mission - to secure their assigned territory in Iraq’s Diyala province, to return it to the hands of the people who live there.
In case you missed it, beginning in January another four brigades will be withdrawn from Iraq. Twenty thousand men and women are scheduled to return home by July. |
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Iranian president sparks ethical questions | 10/11/07 |
Seton Hill University (SHU) welcomes several speakers each year to campus. Later this month we’ll play host to the writer Richard Rodriguez. While I’ve been here, we’ve heard from novelists, congressmen, and the producer of the offbeat documentary “Super-Size Me”. In the past the SHU community has heard from such diverse personalities as the Dalai Lama and humor writer Dave Barry, best known for his ongoing campaign to abolish the penny.
All of these people have one thing in common: they are all outstanding in their fields. We sell out all the seats in Cecilian Hall for our annual campus lecture because our guests have things to say that we really need to hear. |
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