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Written by: Elizabeth Zieche | 5 Nov 2009 | No Comment
Ready, set, shop…Black Friday and Cyber Monday await

Black Friday is right around the corner and retailers and shoppers are gearing up for one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

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Front Page Opinion
Written by: Katie Turner | 5 Nov 2009 | No Comment
If you don’t have money to waste, then don’t spend your money getting wasted

Most college students amaze me. They really do. Listening to them talk about what they do in their free time just cracks me up and befuddles me immensely.

Never would I think I’d hear so many college students basically brag about how they almost got into a car accident because they were driving drunk. How they were in the backseat, wasted and were almost in an accident because the driver was also drunk.

Every time I hear these people finish bragging and telling their story, I have to ask myself, “What is wrong with them?”

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Front page news
Written by: Elizabeth Zieche | 5 Nov 2009 | No Comment
Campus alcohol violations are down, but drug violations are up

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security and Campus Crime Statistics Act, which reports trends and incidences of crime on campus, has been released for 2009. 

The Clery report contains “information about crime on or near respective campuses,” says Federal Statute 20 U.S.C. 1092(f.).

These crimes include everything ranging from homicide, to sexual offenses to drug violations to parking violations.

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Front page sports
Written by: Brandon Ross | 5 Nov 2009 | No Comment
No time for losing; we are the champions (again)

The Yavapai College Roughrider soccer team defeated Arizona Western College 2-0 for their nineteenth NJCAA Region I Championship on Saturday Oct. 31 at Ken Lindley Field.

Their Region I win earned them a trip to the National stage for the third year in a row.

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Front page feature
Written by: Surat Lozowick | 5 Nov 2009 | No Comment
You’re not in Kansas anymore

It’s mid-afternoon at the far end of the Nürburgring racetrack in Nürburg, Germany and everyone is soaked.    

The freezing onslaught of rain is finally starting to let up, but anyone who’s been there long isn’t dry enough for it to matter. 

No one really cares. Everyone is there for the music. Everyone is there to have a good time.  No pain, no gain.

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