Here's a close look at the scepter leading the procession. #SetonHillGrad 2016 starts in a few minutes.

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Lining up for Honors Convocation 2016. #setonhill

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The last submissions of this o’er ripe term, Ungraded, mock me though this app. And thus, Procrastination midwifes this blank verse.

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How Literature Became Word Perfect

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An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage

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There is no cloud. It’s just someone else’s computer.

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Facebook Hired Journalists to Train Its Trending Topics Algorithm

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As yearbooks die, colleges lose a link to the past

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Carolyn and spider friends performing "Power" from Stage Right's Sleeping Beauty this Friday.

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