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Write Place aids students

Petra Neumueller goes through corrections on a student´s rough copy at Riverview Hall in The Write Place. Writing tutorials are free with appointments and walk-ins are taken daily.
Most students, at some point in their academic career, are going to need some help with writing. Be it grammar, word-usage or spelling, everyone needs the occasional assistance of a master in order to make the grade.

The SCSU Writing Center (a.k.a. "The Write Place"), located in Riverview 118, has been helping students enhance their papers and become better, more effective writers since the 1970s.

Cars need preparation too

It's a late Friday winter afternoon and you are driving home to see the family for the weekend, when all of a sudden your car breaks down in the middle of the road. It's thirty degrees with a high windchill factor, and there is nobody in sight. You are cold and scared, but you have the situation under control (yeah right).

Classic horror film provides good scares

In 1962, director Herk Harvey wanted to make a film about an abandoned amusement park left to rot near Great Salt Lake.

An employee of the Centron industrial and education film company, Harvey was no stranger to filmmaking, yet he had never done a feature.

Posthumous Smith album released

One year ago today, Elliott Smith took his own life with a swift jab to the heart by his own knife wielding hand.

After a year of silence, the release of his final work in progress, "From a Basement on the Hill," hit the shelves Tuesday.

With its release, tribute concerts and listening parties have popped up around the world in cities including Los Angeles, Sydney (Australia) and Seattle.

Cult film classic to screen

The University Program Board will be showing the movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" Saturday in the Atwood Ballroom as an event coinciding with homecoming week.

This event has become an annual SCSU tradition, and last year the ballroom was crowded with over 250 people.

Wellstone film debuts this week

In celebration of the late Senator Paul Wellstone's life, a documentary film will premiere at 7 p.m. Monday in the Atwood Ballroom.

This will mark the second anniversary of that frightful night in which Wellstone's small plane plummeted to the ground, killing the senator, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia and five others, just eleven days before the election for his third term as U.



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