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40 years of Roe v. Wade

The number of abortions performed in America has been on the decline for a generation. Yet in few states has the trend been more dramatic in recent years than in Kansas, a change driven by...

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Furman students take on Crowders Mountain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpGhgWLwKEk&feature=youtu.be By Kylee Perez, Contributing Writer When you think of a typical college student's weekend, you might think of hanging out in coffee shops, playing intramural sports, or going downtown. But scaling up the side...

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Beyond Moneyball

by Bryan Betts ’13, Student Writer In 2002, the Oakland A’s proved that a player’s worth isn’t always defined by his batting average. The team won 20 consecutive games setting an American League record, despite...

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Eyewitnesses to history

By Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer It’s a story Taylor Mitchell plans to tell her grandchildren. The United States’ first African-American president was sworn in for his second term, and she was privileged to be an...

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Campus flu cases this year about average

by Erikah Haavie, Contributing Writer Furman is seeing what Director of Student Health Services Mary Haselden described as a “typical” flu season this year. During the first week of classes in January, clinic staff saw...

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Everything’s coming up roses

Since the Furman campus is widely considered to be among the most beautiful in the nation, it comes as no surprise that Sheree Wright, senior grounds keeper at the university, was invited to write a...

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Liberal arts and the real world

In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Furman president Rod Smolla writes that “liberal college education is not disconnected from meaningful and productive jobs, callings or careers. To the contrary, it is often the gateway, the...

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Remembering the Wilmington Ten

Even though 2010 Furman graduate Andrew Barnhill was a native of Wilmington, N.C., it took him a long time to hear the infamous story of the Wilmington Ten, a group of individuals known for their...

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Viewing emancipation through a digital lens

by Sara Morano ’13, Contributing Writer “It took many hands to loosen the chains of slavery and many on accident” Edward Ayers, an American historian, and the president of the University of Richmond, spoke about...

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