Faculty lining up for #SetonHill’s “Go Orientation” — new ceremony hands students from their parents to robed Hogwarts pretenders.

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Dani Girl (Oct 1-3, 2015) at the Geyer Performing Arts Center

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Advising incoming majors.

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To Learn More, This High-Schooler Left The Classroom

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On a shelf in the slanty room under the stairs, next to her college textbooks, my mother kept a stash of inexpensive Peanuts paperbacks — dozens of them, which reprinted the newspaper strips, perhaps on a yearly basis, maybe more frequently. I spent many a summer afternoon reading through those books, and I remember sorting…

One wild place. (Sunday.)

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After a successful piano recital.

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Sesame Street Is Moving to HBO, and the Symbolism Is Crushing

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TARDIS from today’s 3D printing class.

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A serious summer activity.

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