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AIDS awareness needs a boost

HIV/AIDS is a disease that continues to grow within America’s college student community. One in 500 college students is HIV positive, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg of the AIDS phenomenon in this country,” said Victoria Shannon, director of the Office of Gay and Lesbian Student Concerns. “It’s very scary because most people who are infected don’t realize they are,” she said.

Most experts on the disease say that the biggest problem in abating HIV/AIDS growth is educating people about how it is transmitted and reinforcing ways to prevent it.
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Bilingual staff needed now

Question: What if Columbia could improve its minority retention, increase student satisfaction and improve relationships with its students and their parents, all for only $60,000 a year? It’s possible, it’s easy, and the Latino Alliance has an idea how it could happen. Hire two bilingual staff members—one for the Office of Student Financial Services and another for the Admissions Office.
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War may change college life

President George W. Bush said “the signs are not encouraging” that Iraq will disclose and disarm weapons of mass destruction in compliance with the U.N. mandate.
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If you don’t have something nice to say...

I hate talking to strangers. There, I said it. More accurately, I hate when they talk to me. But, I assure you, this is not solely due to my misanthropic nature. The reason I hate when strangers speak to me is because 99 percent of the people who do this are selfish whiners with nothing nice to say.
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