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  • Featured Features Music reviews AUDIO: Top ten albums of 2011

    AUDIO: Top ten albums of 2011

    LISTEN: We discuss the top five picks.  Stream or download and listen to it somewhere else: The Allegheny Campus – Top 5 Albums of 2011 By CODY MILLER Music Reviewer 2011 was full of left-field moments. Some of the year’s most critically acclaimed and anticipated albums ended up duds (we’re looking at you, King of Limbs) while some of the best came from newcomers or bands previously thought to be washed-up or outmoded. Here are our picks for 2011′s best: [...]

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  • News College prepares for environmental activist

    College prepares for environmental activist

    By CORY RECTENWALD News Co-editor rectenwaldc@allegheny.edu Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben is scheduled to visit campus April 16 to speak for the Year of Sustainable Communities. For the 10 days prior, the Sustainability Coordinating Committee has events planned in the campus center aimed at displaying Allegheny’s various efforts and awards related to its environmental stewardship. ASG’s Director of Sustainability Ian Colley, ‘13, is a chief organizer of the events leading up to McKibben’s visit. “What makes [McKibben] especially good [...]

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  • News Carr renovations to finish by summer

    Carr renovations to finish by summer

    By CORY RECTENWALD News Co-editor rectenwaldc@allegheny.edu The rennovation of Carr Hall, which began in May 2011, is on schedule to be completed late this semester. The newly organized facility, which houses departments of environmental science and physics, will be ready for professors and students in fall 2012, said Physical Plant Assistant Director Brian Gillette. The project, made possible by a grant from the Eden Hall foundation, will vie for a LEED certification. A newly transformed lobby will feature planting beds [...]

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  • News Health Center to bring Family Planning

    Health Center to bring Family Planning

    By ELAINA MERCATORIS News Co-editor mercate@allegheny.edu Sue Plunkett, director of the Winslow Health Center, is working with Family Planning Services to provide extra reproductive health services on campus for two afternoons a month. “We’re in negotiations, but things are on hold right now,” said Plunkett. If contracted, the nurse practitioner from Family Planning will offer STI testing, Pap smear exams and birth control options by appointment one afternoon every other week in the Winslow Health Center. Since the beginning of [...]

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  • Faculty News Faculty approves calendar changes

    Faculty approves calendar changes

    By ELAINA MERCATORIS News Co-editor mercate@allegheny.edu In a unanimous vote in December’s meeting, the faculty approved a new academic calendar to be initiated for the 2012-2013 school year. The curriculum committee, made up of faculty and students, initially proposed a new academic calendar last spring. The faculty originally voted 51-43 against a new academic calendar in a meeting last September. “It wasn’t 100 percent clear why it was defeated,” said David Statman, chair of the curriculum committee. “Those of us [...]

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  • News MEC expects ‘good turnout’ for concert

    MEC expects ‘good turnout’ for concert

    By CHELSEA FLEISCHMAN News Co-editor fleiscc@allegheny.edu When the Major Events Committee announced the major concert results in December, students had mixed reactions on winning local artist Mac Miller and questioned both the clarity and selection process of the survey. Since student tickets first went on sale on Monday, 373 tickets have been sold, according to MEC officials. Co-Director of the MEC Natalie Curtis, ’12, said that she expects a good turnout, especially because so many students are from the Pittsburgh [...]

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  • News FIJI to recolonize this fall

    FIJI to recolonize this fall

    By KATIE McHUGH Features Co-editor mchughk@allegheny.edu After the Board of Trustees voted to approve FIJI’s recolonization over Fall Break, plans to found the chapter moved slowly forward as its momentum built. Although students planned to start the chapter this spring, a recent increase of new FIJI colonies has strained the national chapter’s finances and stalled recolonization on campus. “I’ve had a lot more people come up to me expressing their interest to join of lately,” said the head of the [...]

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  • Features Music reviews Top Albums of 2011

    Top Albums of 2011

    By CODY MILLER millerc@allegheny.ecu 1. COIN COIN CHAPTER ONE: GENS DE COULEUR LIBRES by MATANA ROBERTS Matana Robert’s Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres is an experience nothing short of exhausting. Backed by a 16-piece ensemble, Coin Coin is rife with tense, visceral instrumental flourishes, which only magnify the sheer tension underlying these pieces. Roberts’ pieces impose weighty, unavoidable questions upon the listener, forcing one to, in some sense, confront his or her past conception of African-American history [...]

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