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Matt Lane

Over the weekend, two members of the men's track team traveled to Massachusetts to run in the Boston University Terrier Classic. Both men returned with new school records under their belts.

Head coach Andrew Gerard took senior Matt Lane and freshman Jacob Frey to Boston so that they would be entered into a challenging field in which they would benefit from solid competition. Both ran in the 5,000-meter race, with Lane posting a new school record for the indoor event and Frey clocking in a new freshman record.

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It is common to find freshmen who have college credit or exemption for scores received on high school Advanced Placement tests. The College's system in which students are rewarded unnecessarily for these extra credits is flawed.

Say a student has earned 15 credits from AP tests. This student is classified technically as a second semester freshman and is allowed to register for second semester classes before the rest of his or her classmates. This automatically creates handicapped and advantaged groups within the class.

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If you live on Peter Bodnar's hall, you're probably well-versed in the music of Madonna. This is not just because he plays her music all the time, and not just because he likes to sing the lyrics at the top of his lungs, but also because if you walk by his door, he'll invite you in to hear the newest clip of one of her songs that he's downloaded from the Internet.

"He's played it for all of his friends; they're obligated to come hear it," Sherafgan Mehboob, a sophomore and Bodnar's roommate, said. "They have to come pay homage to Madonna."

Bodnar's friends agree that he is Madonna's devotee, her student. Basically, he is a really big fan.

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"Eye of the Beholder" is a vertigo-inducing, all style no substance collage of grandoise paranoia. It's a hundred-minute drum and bass video about a miserable secret agent man stalking a woman and collecting snowglobes.

Ewan McGregor plays British operative Stephen Wilson, code name Eye. Divorced from his wife and constantly out on surveillence missions, he's a high-tech loner cut off from humanity ‹ Holden Caufield playing James Bond with Internet earphones wired to his hunting hat.

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