As I approach the end of this final semester of my college career and my December graduation, I find it behooves me to tell those in their salad days, when they are green in years, exactly what I have learned while I was in school. I have learned that academia is a dense world of highly qualified people fighting for precious few opportunities, and that it provides immediate and absolute lessons of humility for those unwilling to accept these facts.

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Fast food is not real food. I understand why people are confused about this fact, since it strongly resembles real food. A fast food hamburger seemingly has many elements of a real food hamburger: bunlike slabs, cooked meatish product, and vegetable-reminiscent items. It is prepared on an item that is strongly similar to a stove, by people who receive

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Last week I went to the final show of the Fall Dance Happening. The performance was pretty good, especially watching Ashleigh do the crab dance, but there was a major problem: the audience. They were jerks. First of all, there was a group of young women with notepads who were writing about the show for their class.

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When Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came to the United States a few weeks ago, his position on the historicity of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews during World War II was a matter of much furor. Previously, he has referred to the Holocaust as a "myth", saying that its extent has been exaggerated, and he has suggested that more research should be conducted.

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Three weeks ago, I ran a column about how the policies of most universities, including the University of Tampa, led me to believe that their main function has shifted. I focused specifically on the attendance policy in this column, following the previous column's topic of alcohol policies.

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines "cowardice" as "the quality of a coward; cowardliness; want of courage to face danger; faint-heartedness, pusillanimity." It goes on to specify the meaning of moral cowardice as "ignoble fear of the disapprobation or hostile sentiments of others".

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Have you ever stopped to consider the fundamental error of an attendance policy? You have paid your tuition. For an exorbitant fee, you have hired the school to enroll you in their educational program. By extension, you have hired the professors they employ for this program.You have bought the time and efforts of those professors, who are contracted to provide educational materials such as lectures, tests, and papers, and to fairly evaluate your knowledge of the subject being taught in each class.

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It is interesting at times to take a look at the UT rules about alcohol, taken from the Code of Conduct issued by the Office of Student Conduct. These are rules to which all students are bound. Most of the rules are fairly standard: no public drinking, no drunken driving, and so on.

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The University of Tampa is a campus without a cause, representing a generation without a fight. There are no relevant issues to fight. The campus is handicapped-accessible ethnically diverse, gay-friendly, and open to academic debate. Hate language is discouraged while freedom of speech is protected.

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The other day I pulled into a gas station to fill up. It was rather late at night and slightly chilly. As I pumped the gas, I stared blankly at the black-and-white LED which indicated ...

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It is very common to hear the statistic ‘women make $0.77 for every $1.00 men earn for doing the same job’ in reference to the ‘gender wage gap’, especially now that the Paycheck Fairness Act ...

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I have been vacillating and pondering which candidate I will support in the 2008 election of the president of the United States of America.’ It’s a tough call; the field is crowded. But a systematic ...

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I don’t know why everyone thinks animals and children are happy. It seems entirely obvious to me that cannot possibly be happy. To the contrary, they must be miserable all the time, or rather they ...

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I am not saying that ’300′ is the best movie ever made. But without a doubt ’300′ is the best movie ever made. I am recently informed that it has surpassed several box office records, ...

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