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Bearfoot's bluegrass sound sweet as 'Molasses'
"I was a Bearfoot virgin."
That's what 26-year-old anthropology major Rebecca Jenkins said after hearing Bearfoot for the first time. Jenkins was among the many spectators who sat - and stood - in the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on March 28 to get a glimpse of the Alaska-based quintet: Angela Oudean (fiddle), Annalisa Tornfelt (fiddle), Kate Hamre (bass acoustic), Jason Norris (mandolin) and Mike Mickelson (guitar).
In July of 2007 the Pebble Mine Project partnered with Northern Dynasty Minerals with plans to construct and operate a mine.
The site sits in Pebble Valley on the Nushagak and Kvichak rivers, about 238 miles southwest of Anchorage. Exploratory drilling at Pebble West and Pebble East has found that the site is rich in both copper and gold.
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Holocaust survivor Gerda Klein had been to 49 states. After last weekend, she's seen them all.
Over the weekend, Klein spoke at UAA, Congregation Beth Sholom and Moose Pass School.
Klein's visit can be credited to the small community of Moose Pass, located outside of Seward.
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White foam board decorated with magazine cutouts and colored sketches line the windows of the Spine that connects the Student Union and the Engineering Building.
Before spring break, UAA adjunct professor Debi Richmond assigned an art project to her undergraduate Cultural Anthropology class to create graffiti.
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The Student Union of UAA is not generally the place a person would hear the chant "Let's go, Seawolves" and uproarious applause. However, on March 26-27, it was a different story.
Students and fans gathered in the Student Union to watch the broadcast of the UAA men and women's basketball teams as both teams played in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight on March 26, and the Final Four on March 27.
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Virtus Unita performs classical guitar music at UAA Giovanni Demartini and Roland Stearns of Virtus Unita performed at the UAA Fine Arts Recital Hall on March 25. The duo's origins in music stems from European classical music for the guitar. Stearns, who is a classical guitarist and lutist, is a term member of the UAA music faculty; Demartini is the founder of a major guitar festival in his home town of Cervia, Italy.
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Canada's contentious seal hunt begins TORONTO - Vessels pursuing seals maneuvered through heavy ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Friday at the start of the largest marine mammal hunt in the world. Only a few seals had been killed so far, said Fisheries and Oceans Canada spokesman Phil Jenkins, noting that the ice had hampered about 16 vessels and kept the sealers "quite a distance from a herd.
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Spring is here, according to our calendars. Trees are budding, flowers beginning to bloom, young men's fancies lightly turning to thoughts of love - the whole nine yards. At least, that's probably the story further south where spring really does start on March 21; here, if we're lucky, we get temperatures edging into the 40s and enough sun to turn mounds of dirty snow into gritty mud, plus standing water where the ground is still too frozen to absorb any of it.
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"Run Fatboy Run" is not a typical movie, let alone a typical comedy. Of course, when combining the writing talents of Michael Ian Black ("Reno 911!: Miami") and Simon Pegg ("Sean of the Dead"), with the comedic talents of Dylan Moran ("Sean of the Dead") for the directorial debut of "Friends'" David Schwimmer, anything can happen.
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USUAA invites students to candidates' debate USUAA will hold a debate for the three presidential candidates Wednesday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Den. Pizza will be provided, and students will have the opportunity to ask candidates about their platforms and ideas for the university in the next year.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - On the agenda: A student who got into a shouting match with a faculty member. Another who harassed a female classmate. Someone found sleeping in a car. And a student who posted a threat against a professor on Facebook.
In a practice adopted at one college after another since the massacre at Virginia Tech, a University of Kentucky committee of deans, administrators, campus police and mental health officials has begun meeting regularly to discuss a watch list of troubled students and decide whether they need professional help or should be sent packing.
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Monday, March 17 UPD shuts down violence 7:39 p.m. - An RA called to report a housing resident who had shoved an RA and another resident. UPD simultaneously received another call from the East Hall front desk attendant reporting a suicide attempt, which was related to the first call.
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Pride KRUA 88.1 FM for being UAA's student-run radio station for 16 years, and for providing free food, live music and drawings for Bearfoot concert tickets at their anniversary party. Chide USUAA's senate elections for offering more open positions than candidates to vote for, resulting in an election that's essentially pointless for voters.
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Wolves' track and field delivers The UAA track and field team registered yet another stellar outing as it produced 20 top-5 finishes, including six wins, and broke two school records Friday evening at the University of Washington Outdoor Preview at Husky Stadium.
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I would have preferred not to jump aboard the "race" train at all during my running commentary of this political cycle, but I should have known that would be next to impossible. I suppose it was overly optimistic to assume both candidates would play fair; mud-slinging between the two was bound to get ugly.
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Arguably one of the greatest things about the videogame's medium is the ability to immerse the player in a character or setting far removed from reality. Thanks to "Madden NFL," even scrawny nerds can be NFL stars; because of "Final Fantasy VII," effeminate emo kids can save the world.
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Bearfoot's bluegrass sound sweet as 'Molasses'
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Pebble Mine debate continues
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Community remembers Holocaust with survivor Gerda Klein
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Student art project reflects college culture
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Basketball: All good things come to an end for UAA
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Talking about sustainability pointless without cleaning up our own act first
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'Run Fatboy Run' follows tired sports comedy formula
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Colleges keeping an eye on troubled students
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Seawolf Pride and Chide
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Political race or racial politics? You decide
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God of War: Chains of Olympus
