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<Title>IT&#8217;S FRIIIIDAY! Check out all the awesome swag Laura...</Title>
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<Title>No Step Class</Title>
<Tagline>Today, 6/17/13</Tagline>
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<Summary>There will be no Step class this evening, 6/17/13. We apologize for the inconvenience.</Summary>
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<Title>Jessica Walsh&#160;is a multidisciplinary designer and art director...</Title>
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<Summary>Jessica Walsh is a multidisciplinary designer and art director living and working in NYC. She is a partner at the New York based design studio Sagmeister &amp; Walsh. Her work has been featured in...</Summary>
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<Title>No Group Fitness</Title>
<Tagline>Today, 5/3/13</Tagline>
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<Title>MIT Delivers 1000 Tablets to Ethiopian Children</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">MIT's One Laptop per Child Program (OLPC) decided to deliver boxes of tablets to two illiterate villages in Ethiopia, taped shut, with no instructions whatsoever. <br><br><img src="http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/styles/blog_post_media/public/images/ethiopia-tablet-kids.jpg" alt="" height="365" width="550" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br><em><br>(<em><strong>from dvice.com</strong></em></em>)<em><br><br>"<em><em><em>We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No 
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    boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found 
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    figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android</em>."</em> -<strong> OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference <br><br></strong>Check out the rest of the story and let us know what you think! Are kids in developed areas of the world today getting less and less inquisitive? <br></div>
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<Title>SGA Election Live!</Title>
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<Summary>The 2013 SGA election is underway! Undergraduates can cast their votes here until Wednesday night at midnight.</Summary>
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    <br></div><div>UMBC Event &amp; Conferences Services is looking to hire 
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    Ticketing Staff are responsible for selling tickets at the door for 
    student organization events that are planned through our office. </div>
    
    <div><br></div><div>Responsibilities include welcoming all guests, performers, and organizers, selling and tracking ticket sales, wrist-banding attendees, reconciling all cash transactions at the conclusion of the sale period, and depositing funds into a designated safe.</div>
    
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    Saturday evenings, so weekend availability is required, however; 
    availability during the week is also preferable. This position will 
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    <div><br></div><div>Preference will be given to students who email Jackie Aliotta (<a href="mailto:jaliotta@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">jaliotta@umbc.edu</a>), Events Coordinator, with their interest and resume by Friday, May 3rd 2013. Students will be interviewed on a rolling basis. </div><br></div>
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     addition to this, there is a possibility that the RAC could be further 
    extending its operational hours again next semester. <br><br>The new (potential)
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    of communication with the RAC and the Athletics Department so that more 
    efforts can be made to get the students' voices heard and establish a 
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<Title>Greek Week 2013 T-Shirt Design</Title>
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<Summary>Order forms were handed out this past Monday to your Greek Week Committee representatives.  You can also download the order form below.      Forms with payment are due to Susan by April 10th by 5pm.</Summary>
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