On display


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Martin Benson, a senior majoring in fine arts, is critiqued by one of the head judges during Wednesday’s Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. Trousdale Parkway was lined with students competing for prizes in the arts, humanities and sciences.

Web-based activism seeks to keep e-masses in the know


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It always seems the Internet is under attack. Every week some fresh outrage breaks out over something that has appeared online. Sometimes it’s a morality issue stemming from some indecent website or video. This time the website in question is WikiLeaks.org. The site recently leaked footage from 2007 that shows an attack by American helicopters […]

Fear and self-loathing in column writing


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I have been writing this column every week for two and a half years, but the process feels more bizarre every time I pick up a copy of the paper. I try to come up with similes to help rationalize what still seems foreign to me. Lately, column writing has begun to take on the […]