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Older books should continue to be celebrated

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In 1884, Mark Twain wrote, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” a classic in the American literary canon revolving around Huckleberry “Huck” Finn. Huck befriends a former slave, Jim, and the two go on adventures through the nineteenth century southern antebellum. Jim is, at many times, characterized as an unintelligent, uneducated and comedic character. Twain often…

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Diversity courses: Important part of curriculum

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By Matthew Villanueva Contributing Writer As Jacqueline Woodson, author of “Brown Girl Dreaming,” a memoir told in poetry, once said, “Diversity is about all of us and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” Being an English and secondary education double major, I love classic American literature: Carver, Fitzgerald,…

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No envy for John Green

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By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor I hate fads. Generally speaking, if everyone wants something, I usually want nothing to do with it. It’s not because I want to paint myself as some kind of hipster who’s so much cooler than you – I hate that too. I just find that, in most cases, if…

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Preserving pages of history

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By Matthew Laurrie Features Editor Perched atop the shelves in the rare books collection of the library sit thousands of stories spanning the course of history. The Holy Name Library for the Franciscan Institute, which was built as an addition to the Friedsam Memorial Library in 2008, houses the university’s archive of rare books. The library…

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Bonaventure students get it ‘write’ in November

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By Matthew Laurrie Features Assignment Editor Writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days. That’s the task participants in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) take on each November. As the words and ideas of possible novels migrate from writer’s minds down to their fingertips, a blank Word document comes alive. Jess Rehac, a senior education major,…

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