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		<title>Students reflect on the death of Joe Paterno</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nathan Palcowski Staff Reporter On Jan. 22, 2012, not only did Penn State University and the rest of the college football world lose a coach, they lost an icon.  Legendary football coach Joe Paterno passed away from lung cancer at the age of 85. Paterno had been the head football coach at Penn State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA, PIPA on hiatus on the hill, nationwide protest puts controversial media legislation on hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thehair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jake Adams Staff Reporter On Jan. 18, if you didn’t know about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), by the end of the day you at least knew that it existed. What it is, why it’s there and why it has caused so much fuss would have required some investigation, but not much. Type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil tension rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajcoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Baxter Gill Staff Reporter Tensions in the Middle East have been building for as long as many Western Michigan University students can remember. Between OPEC oil price manipulations, Israeli rhetoric and counter rhetoric, Iraqi wars and most recently, the Arab Spring, the Middle East is in the news so often that Americans might not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RSO No Labels challenges partisan politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynnHodorek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tayler Cattera Staff Reporter The 2012 presidential election is now in full swing and candidates’ promises and proposals of how to fix the many problems facing America have been heard across the country. But there are some people that are more than skeptical that any of these promises will be met after the election because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State reminds victims to report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ajcoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Catie Dymond Staff Reporter The recent accusations at Penn State University allow people to analyze and recognize mistakes made by Penn State officials so they can be avoided in the future. Over the past few weeks, news has spread rapidly with different versions of the Penn State University scandal. Former assistant football Coach Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University opens lines of communication about Swine Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sebastian Fryer Western Herald As a new academic year begins, the threat of a pandemic hangs over Western Michigan University. On Aug. 31, 2009, WMU administrators sent out an e-mail to students and families regarding the prevention of an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as “swine flu.”  The e-mail included information on flu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WMU students and professors give their own 100-day report card to Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ranchithaa Anatory Western Herald When President Barack Obama entered the oval office in late January, the entire world knew how large of a task he had ahead of him. Having made many campaign promises to deal with an economic crisis, deteriorating diplomatic relationships and the need to figure out what actions to take in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu on WMU campus: 3 confirmed, 3 recovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HeraldAdmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daing S. Nasir Western Herald As of June 5, Sindecuse Health Center has confirmed three cases of the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as the “swine flu.&#8221; The university has diagnosed a case every week for the past three weeks.Each student confirmed to have H1N1 has fully recovered with antiviral medication in less than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WMU: Swine flu being monitored carefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 01:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Alexander Western Herald To allay concerns of a pandemic, Western Michigan University officials are urging students and citizens alike to stay informed about the potential threats of the swine flu. Of the 37 probable swine flu cases in Michigan, only two have been confirmed as of Sunday evening, one in Livingston County and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WMU alumnus to represent the U.S. in Jewish Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brianna Clabin Western Herald Western Michigan Alumnus, Chad Mahakian, will be representing the U.S. in the 2009 Maccabiah Games (Jewish Olympics). Mahakian graduated in August from WMU, where he majored in exercise science. “Running played a part in my decision to major in exercise, but I think the majority of my decision came from [...]]]></description>
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