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What’s on your plate, ASU?

by Kerry LePain On the Cover
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At the northern end of the Valley of the Sun, nestled at the feet of the San Tan Mountains, lie fields of trees with dainty jade leaves and gnarled, ancient-looking trunks. These are olive trees, and the fields belong to Queen Creek Olive Mill. The farm grows nine types of olives, all of which make [...]

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Chalking Up: A Male Gymnast Battles the Sport’s Gender Wall

by Claire Lawton Features
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This article was written by guest author Allison Gatlin.
The hands. Tiny and callused, they bear the marks of a high bar’s wrath. From across the gym, in a chalky storm, those hands are blurred by fluorescent light. They glow like a high floating cloud.
It is through this cloud that a boy wields his mastery [...]

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ASU Student Organizations Raise Human Rights Awareness

by Erica Rodriguez Features
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As students sit in comfortable, taking lecture notes or updating Facebook statuses, millions of people around the world are suffering the depletion of their human rights; rights that are sometimes taken for granted.
According to the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no human shall be tortured, exiled or enslaved, and all humans have the [...]

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Up In Smoke: Marijuana Usage at ASU

by Sebastien Bauge Features
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Between Oct. 1 2008 and Sept. 30 2009, the Arizona State University Police Department made 173 arrests involving drugs, all of which involved marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia, according to ASU police record.
While Marijuana isn’t the leading cause of arrests at ASU, its growing presence reflects a trend both campus and nationwide.
In September 2009, the U.S. Department [...]

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Talk Derby to Me: The Women of the Arizona Roller Derby

by Janice Vega Features
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The scene at the Castle Sports Club on this particular evening is not the usual ‘hoo-rah’ of most sports events. There are girls on roller skates wearing pirate costumes, tutus and baseball uniforms and it’s well past Halloween. The crowd gathers around a flat track carefully laid out by tape and the announcers go by [...]

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Derby Breakdown

by Janice Vega Features
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Continued from Talk Derby to Me
For the novices, press secretary and safety marshal, Amber Hassing aka Ann T. Madder, gives a basic run-down of the game:

The event is called a “bout”. Each match is called a “jam” and consists of two teams. Each team has three positions: jammer, blocker and pivot.
The goal of the game is [...]

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Becoming a Pong Pro: Students Aim for Sport Status

by Charlsy Panzino Features
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An on-looker might wonder why the heck a game of beer pong is being played in broad daylight, in the middle of a store. Welcome to Brewing Rivalry, the new beer pong mecca on Forest Avenue in Tempe,which lends support to a more professional name for the game.

Brewing Rivalry opened its doors on Oct. 1, [...]

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Meet Phoenix Fashion Week’s Emerging Designers

by Lauren Gambino Cloth
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Phoenix is hot with fashion fever this week as it prepares for the 5th annual Phoenix Fashion Week from Oct. 1-3.

For the first time ever, Phoenix Fashion Week will host an “Inspire Fashion” emerging designer contest, which awards 10 local designers the opportunity to catapult their design careers into commercial businesses.
The designers were handpicked to compete in the [...]

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Health Care: Now and the Future

by Rheyanne Weaver On the Cover
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The doctor visit is over and the assistant behind the counter promptly asks, “How will you be paying today?” There’s a slight pause — a shift in eye contact.
Attention is drawn to the total dollar amount blinking on the screen. Breathe.
If there is health insurance coverage, an upfront payment of a smaller co-pay is in [...]

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Health Care Q&A

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A continuation of Health Care: Now and the Future
Q&A With Denise Link, Associate Dean for Clinical Practice and Community Partnerships
Q: What do you suggest for students who are graduating for health insurance?
A: I do highly recommend to students that they get some kind of health care coverage. There’s a lot of products on the market. [...]

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