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Next Saturday, international film sensation Jackie Chan will take a short break from dropping cans of whoop-ass on evildoers in order to spend an afternoon with the College community. Chan's appearance follows a weeklong film festival celebrating his 22-year career, sponsored by the Reves Center for International Studies and the Roy R. Charles Center.

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Every year various magazines release their version of which colleges rank the highest. Every year these magazine fail to recognize some truly important traits that make a college great.

Ranking systems are only as good their criteria, but the elements that make a college good are often immeasureable. Because ranking systems inherently favor large campuses, the value of a smaller college goes largely unrecognized.

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Last May, the College's commencement ceremonies were held on the same day as Mother's Day, resulting in a few seniors scrambling for a last-minute gift in the midst of all their activities.

"There was a young man who worked at the restaurant next door to our studio and, of course, his parents were coming to see him graduate. However, he did manage to forget that it was also Mother's Day,"

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The road trip movie is not a new concept. In fact it has been beaten into the ground in every possible way. There has been the "I'm-a-female-and-my-opinion-counts" film "Thelma and Louise," the gross-out college comedy "Road Trip," the action-comedy-drama "Midnight Run" or the killers on the run film "Natural Born Killers." With so many films about road trips why would anyone want to write and direct another one?

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It was a tale of two halves.

There really is no better explanation for William and Mary's home opener Saturday against the Virginia Military Institute Keydets, a contest the Tribe eventually won handily 55-15.

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