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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Lily Goodspeed

Symposium explores queer issues

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Once known as the Sager Symposium, the newly titled Queer Issues Symposium addressed the importance of place and identity for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people with events and workshops th…

Boots memorialize Iraq War’s soldiers

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Sergeant Jennifer Hartman of New Ringgold, Pennsylvania entered the military when she was 17 years old. Four years later a suicide bombing killed her and two fellow soldiers near an electrical substat…

PROSE award honors Gergen’s work on relationships

Ken Gergen’s book “Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community,” which has recently won an Association of American Publishers PROSE award, is not a traditionally written psychology text.

“It is …

Professor details history of SNCC, ‘Black Power’

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In the spring of 1960, four students initiated a sit-in at a North Carolina Woolworth store, and by the end of the week, over 1,000 students joined them.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor of h…