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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Releasing a Tiny Game and Trying to Get Paid

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Monument Valley: Minimal story, but an engaging world and a satisfying ending.

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I Felt a Great Disturbance in the Font. And the Margins.

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Quebec teen discovers ancient Mayan ruins by studying the stars

This sounds like the plot of a Young Indiana Jones episode, or maybe Johnny Quest. William Gadoury is a 15-year-old student from Saint-Jean-de-Matha in Lanaudière, Quebec. The precocious teen has been fascinated by all things Mayan for several years, devouring any information he could find on the topic. During his research, Gadoury examined 22 Mayan…

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed [a Certain Political Slant] News

One day when I was an undergraduate working for one of two competing student papers, two rallies were held on opposite sides of the downtown mall. One group held signs like “Keep your laws off my body,” and “Keep abortion safe and legal,” and the other group held signs like “It’s a child, not a choice”…

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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How ‘twisted’ early childhood education has become — from a child development expert

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

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Schiller schools internet on correct Apple device plurals, but Cook says “iPad Pros”

“Siri, is the world ready for Apple pod people who are also grammarians?” According to Schiller, multiple Apple products should be referred to without pluralization, for example the plural of “iPhone” is “iPhone” or “iPhone devices.” It seems years of rampant misuse have taken their toll, finally and absolutely corroding the exec’s resolve to maintain…

The dangers of ‘character education’ in universities

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Education: Teaching teachers how to teach reading

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Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker by Robert Gottlieb

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