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Baseball Team to Rejoin Northeast-10 in Spring 2012 | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Youth Helps Propel Men’s Basketball Team →. Baseball Team to Rejoin Northeast-10 in Spring 2012. February 21, 2011. The St. Michael’s baseball team is set to return to the Northeast-10 conference after a near-decade hiatus from league play. It was announced Nov. 30 that the Purple Knights had regained entry to the conference for the 2012 season. The team became a Division II independent after the 1998 season. This legitimizes our program. The guys h...
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Cutting Lines | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Youth Helps Propel Men’s Basketball Team. February 21, 2011. Lines were created for a reason, to maintain peace and order in times of chaos. Today, we use lines at ticket booths, bathrooms, concerts, check outs, and, of course, dining halls or cafeterias. It’s an intelligent method of keeping the calm. You wait your turn and when it finally is your turn it’s your time to shine. You need to get to the back of the line, I said, but she just continued to g...
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The Defender | The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College | Page 2
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Students Return After Regrets About Leaving. February 20, 2011. Every year students transfer from St. Michael’s for various reasons. Some would like a change to large school where they could blend in. For others it may be financial reasons, medical or personal or family issues that take them away from campus. This spring, 12 students have returned to campus for assorted reasons. But since they left in the first place, why do they return? I loved the cit...
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Cuts in Funding = Loss of Lives | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. I’m Going to Fail This Exam. Cuts in Funding = Loss of Lives. February 21, 2011. This Thursday, Feb. 17, is when President Obama will submit his budget for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and major cuts are expected. According to the nongovernmental Health Global Access Project (Health GAP), about two million who have been waiting in line for treatment will die because they will not have access to ARV drugs due to cuts in the G...
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I’m Going to Fail This Exam – Really? | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Cuts in Funding = Loss of Lives. Source Subject: A Letter From the Editors →. I’m Going to Fail This Exam. February 21, 2011. Are you an anxious person? Defensive pessimism is a strategy people develop to help manage anxiety and allow them to work productively. The strategy is to lower expectations and prepare for the worst by mentally simulating unwanted outcomes. This is defensive pessimism in a nutshell. This is not to say defensive pessimists are no...
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Source Subject: A Letter From the Editors | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. I’m Going to Fail This Exam. Source Subject: A Letter From the Editors. February 21, 2011. The Editors of The Defender. With each semester comes new academic challenges and a new learning curve. What some people may not know is that The Defender is neither an elective, nor a club, but a four-credit, semester-long course. While the entire staff takes responsibility for any offense, omission or oversight occurring this semester, it is important to underst...
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Expectations: Mediocre? | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. St Michael’s Athletics in The Back of The Pack. Baseball Team to Rejoin Northeast-10 in Spring 2012 →. February 21, 2011. Average Hours of Study Time Outside Class Per Week for St. Michael’s Students. Is higher education really beneficial? This is a question many are pondering after the release of a recent study, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, written by professors of sociology at NYU and the University of Virginia. That sugg...
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Library Extends Hours | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Students Return After Regrets About Leaving. St Michael’s Athletics in The Back of The Pack →. February 20, 2011. The library has extended its hours for the weekend before midterms in a trial run for students; it will be open until 10 pm on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. We’ll look at the gate count data from this trial weekend and if a lot of people are in the library for these extended hours, then we should be open, Arena said. Fill in your de...
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Youth Helps Propel Men’s Basketball Team | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Baseball Team to Rejoin Northeast-10 in Spring 2012. Cutting Lines →. Youth Helps Propel Men’s Basketball Team. February 21, 2011. As the men’s basketball team’s record climbs the NE-10 conference standings, young players continue to play a key role in the team’s success. Photo By Peter Hanson. The teams current win total (11) is more than all of last season. First-year Michael Holton, Jr. is a big part of the team, averaging 16.0 points per game. Among...
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CIG-NO | The Defender
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The Student Publication of Saint Michael's College. Cuts in Funding = Loss of Lives →. February 21, 2011. While students were on break celebrating the New Year, a major change took place at St. Michael’s that had little effect on us, but has a potentially huge impact on faculty and staff. St. Michael’s changed its health insurance provider from Blue Cross Blue Shield to CIGNA. I’d like to draw your attention to the nature of the company that St. Michael’s is now doing business with. Potter claims CIGNA w...
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