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Holiday traditions across cultures

By Victoria Snell

December 9, 2014

Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is a celebration lasting 15 days and takes place either in January or February, depending on the lunar calendar. Hui Wang, senior in LAS, described Chinese New Year as a holiday similar to Christmas but without a religious connotation. “It’s more like the biggest festiva...

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Fighting domestic violence with healing words

Speaker, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, describes the seminar to the students at Allen Hall on Monday.

By Stephanie Kim

October 14, 2014

Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, University alumna and award-winning spoken word poet, returned to campus on Monday to challenge community views on domestic violence and feminism. Tsai was chosen as the University’s keynote speaker for October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month because of her ability to “fuse to...

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