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Mar 11, 2010 | Last December, the Women’s Sports Foundation released a study, “Her Life Depends on It II: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-Being of American Girls and Women.” The project was an update on the major research on the health benefits of physical activity and sports for girls and women of all ages and on potential barriers to participation.
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Mar 11, 2010 | In fall 2009, I approached anthropolgy assistant professor Denise
Nuttall with the intention of making flamenco music and culture the
focus of my independent study course. The story of flamenco starts with
the Roma people (commonly known as “gypsies”) fleeing persecution in
their homeland of northern India and migrating west through the Middle
East into Europe. The exact nature of their arrival in Spain is
unknown, but by the 15th century, a sizeable population of Roma existed
in Andalucía, the southern region of Spain.
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Mar 4, 2010 | Higher education should be a means of elevating community while
developing individual potential — to making a difference for others
even as you make a difference for yourself.
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Mar 4, 2010 | Islam is a touchy subject. When I told my grandmother that my senior
project in anthropology would be talking to Muslim students on campus
about issues of identity and religion, she immediately told me, “I
don’t know how you trust those Muslims or why you’re interested in
them. Are you thinking of converting to Islam?”
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Feb 25, 2010 | After the introduction of a nationwide tobacco policy and its enforcement in most places, the general perception about tobacco use is that we are finally winning the battle against it. However, it seems there is always another loophole that sneaks up on us and the use of tobacco could be on its way to the mainstream again with a very different identity and form.
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Feb 25, 2010 | While I was in the West Bank visiting friends this past January, I had
the opportunity to spend time with a Palestinian farmer named Abed.
He welcomed us onto his land, located in a valley just outside
Bethlehem, to tell us about his life. This is his story.
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Feb 18, 2010 | We live in a world of ever-growing convenience. There are so many
options as to where we can get our news, especially online. With the
simple click of a mouse, we can read newspapers and blogs about current
events and issues in almost every part of the world. But the sad truth is that we don’t.
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Feb 11, 2010 | On Jan. 12 of this year, the ground beneath the feet of millions of
Haitians violently shook and disrupted their lives forever. Overnight, from our home
communities to provinces we’d never heard of prior, we, as a world,
lent our hands full of care and favor to the people of Haiti. This
wasn’t an exclusive reaction. We took the same charge in response to
the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and to the hurricanes of New Orleans
in 2005. It is in these spotlights of awareness that we seem to rise
and conquer. When it is up to our awareness to persist, however, we
unfortunately seem to grow ever dimmer.
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Feb 11, 2010 | “It’s time to talk about it.” That’s the theme for this year’s National
Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which takes place Feb. 21-27. Ithaca
College will present a panel discussion on eating disorders and
recovery and a Wellness Wednesday lecture during that week.
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