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News
Protesting profiling: N.Y. shooting prompts Marketplace barricade
By Kim Segall
Yesterday at lunch, about 40 students wearing black blocked the main staircase of the Usdan University Center in a protest that connected police brutality off campus with issues of racism and racial profiling on campus.

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Features
Students push for Asian American Studies major
By Maya Bery and Diana Shum
In January 2002, in an effort to gauge student interest in Asian American Studies, the Freeman Foundation gave the University $1.9 million dollars over the course of four years to bring visiting professors specializing in Asian American Studies to campus. Part of the money also sponsored student research relating to Asia and the Asian Diaspora.
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Ampersand
I have a job for next year, along with a fine apartment in a great neighborhood in a bustling city, in addition to a well drawn-out plan for the rest of my life; please ask me about all of these things and I will elaborate at length
By Alex “It’s Either Write This or Hit a Jumper Over Bryon Russell” Gelman
Boy howdy, seems like graduation is right around the corner, and aren’t I more excited than a necrobestialitist at the Kentucky Derby! While most of my cantankerous classmates in oh-eight are spending their last few weeks at Wesleyan worrying about their ambiguous futures and crying because it’s the last time they will ever watch “Top Chef” with their friends in the living room of 17 Fountain on May 7, 2008, at 9:00 Eastern Daylight Time, I’m living a carefree life.

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Wespeaks
Time to rethink video surveillance
By Lucas Guilkey
On March 2, I attended the most recent WSA meeting, during which there was a discussion of Wesleyan’s camera surveillance policy, which is currently being written in the Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC). I believe it will go to the Student Life Committee (SLC) on Thursday and be voted on after Spring Break.
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Ashley Castro
President Michael Roth thanked students for organizing the action. Students stood on Usdan’s stairs for 45 minutes before marching to the steps of North College, where they stood silently. Read more...

Opinion
Summer break?
In less than two weeks, finals will be over, on-campus housing closed, and the 2007-2008 academic year will come to an end. It’s been a year filled with complex and challenging issues: from contentious negotiations between union workers and the administration to controversial reflections on student life from our new president. To each, the students have largely responded with passion and persistence, making their voices heard through continuous effort and dedication. Surely, summer vacation exists to provide a break, a time to rest and recharge before plunging back into the academic and extracurricular whirlwind come fall.
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Sports
Two batters shatter University records
By Josh Corson
The baseball team finished the season with a 12-6 victory at Hamilton on Sunday, a make-up of a game that got rained out on April 13.
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