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Archive - Mar 29, 2008

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Column: Excuse us, it's tech week

For the 40 or so students involved in Uni High's spring play, Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," next week promises to be — in the words of Lauren Piester — "some of the most strenuous, exhausting, miserable, emotional, and just downright awesome seven days of the school year: tech week for the spring play." Should members of the cast be excused from PE because of the five-hour rehearsals they will be putting in each day? Lauren thinks so, and she makes her case inside.

Save it yourself — your money, that is

These days, it seems like the price of almost everything is pretty darn high. Gas, food, bills … you name it. So is it any suprise that people are trying to cut corners and discounts out of the newspaper?

And if that doesn't work, then what? Spend the rest of your life paying off interest-only loans? Sell your soul to the big corporations? Modern-day slavery, but I won't go into that now.