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5 hrs ago | Hampton Roads Daily Press

A cradle of slavery on the York

This detailed cartouche from the 1751 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland illustrates the close links between tobacco, slavery and trade in the Chesapeake during the early 1700s.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Agriculture, Science, Yorktown, VA, York County, VA

Thu May 23, 2013

WVEC-TV Norfolk

W&M students work to help veterans claim benefits

With the Department of Veterans Affairs seemingly hopelessly behind on processing benefits claims, the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law is stepping in to help.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs

WQAC-FM Alma

Students Inducted into Distinguished Honorary

Twelve Alma College students have been selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, America's oldest and most prestigious scholastic honorary society.

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Related Topix: Alma College, Brighton, MI, Drummond Island, MI, Gladwin, MI

US News & World Report

Use First Year of Law School to Prepare for the Bar

The benefits of excelling during the first year of law school are many. A student can become a stronger candidate for internships and walk into the second year with extra confidence.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Festival Williamsburg brings jazz, Broadway tunes to town

Traveling over the Memorial Day weekend has become a tradition, and so it is with the Virginia Arts Festival , which takes a trip of its own.

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Related Topix: Williamsburg, VA, Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Norfolk, VA, Animated TV, Entertainment, Television

PR-inside.com

Richard Bland College to Host 2013 Teacher Institutes at Pamplin Historical Park

Broken up into two topics, one of the week-long courses will review "Antebellum Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction" on June 17th-21st and July 22nd-26th and the second will examine "Lincoln, Davis, Grant, and Lee: The Last Year of the Civil War," the week of July 15th-19th and August 5th-9th. Each institute will be conducted on the Pamplin ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pamplin, VA

Mon May 20, 2013

Yahoo!

College costs soar, but why?

When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy.

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Related Topix: Goucher College

Sun May 19, 2013

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Ferguson Center for the Arts announces 2013-2014 Broadway lineup

Jamie Bartlett, associate professor of music at the College of William and Mary, will participate in the Williamsburg Choral Guild's Summer Sings Actress Sally Struthers plays the irrepressible Dolly Levi in a touring production of "Hello, Dolly!" coming to the Ferguson Center for the Arts in November.

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Related Topix: All in the Family, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Sally Struthers

Sat May 18, 2013

The Daily News-Record

Mims To BC Grads: Recall 'Timeless Virtues'

As Bridgewater College's graduating seniors and their families celebrated in Nininger Hall on Saturday, Virginia Supreme Court Justice and Harrisonburg native William C. Mims urged the 301 graduates to remember society's "timeless virtues" and to build meaningful lives.

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Related Topix: Bridgewater College, Harrisonburg, VA, Bob McDonnell, US Governors

Fri May 17, 2013

Martinsville Bulletin

Miss Virginia urges students to be - best, healthiest self'

Rosemary Willis , Miss Virginia 2012, looks on as Victoria Evonna-Blair "Blair" Oakley, the 2013 Miss Roanoke Outstanding Preteen, speaks about bullying Thursday at Patrick Henry Elementary School.

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Related Topix: Virginia

Washington Examiner

Maryland universities approve 3 percent tuition hike as college costs rise across region

Maryland's state universities announced that in-state undergraduate tuition would rise by 3 percent, the same amount as the past three years.

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Related Topix: Maryland, Salisbury University, University of Virginia

Thu May 16, 2013

WVEC-TV Norfolk

W&M fraternity shut-down following hazing allegations

WILLIAMSBURG Reports of hazing and humiliation have shut down a long-standing fraternity and launched a criminal investigation at the College of William and Mary.

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Related Topix: Student Society, Coeducational Fraternities, Alpha Zeta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Fraternities, Virginia

Tue May 14, 2013

Stars and Stripes

Sen. Warner keeps pushing on W&M approach to VA backlog

Sen. Mark Warner is pressing his case for law schools across the country to follow a "playbook" developed at the College of William and Mary to reduce the nation's backlog of veteran disability claims.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Democrat, John Warner, Senator Mark Warner, Virginia Commonwealth University, Life, Veteran Affairs

The Dirt

Nearly Unknown in the West: Sub-Saharan Africa's Cultural Landscapes

According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye , University of Delaware, "there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn't somehow implicate the Europeans." That statement may be less true given a recent conference on cultural landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa at Dumbarton Oaks .

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Related Topix: University of Delaware

JD Journal

VA Disability Claims Back Log Could be Alleviated with Law School Pro Bono Clinics

Veterans have a problem that law schools could aid. Around 825,000 applications for disability compensation are backlogged, waiting more than 125 days for the VA to decide if they should receive disability.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, Life, Veteran Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University

The Flat Hat

Mueller stresses integrity, service, patience in commencement address

FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed the College of William and Mary's class of 2013 in his commencement speech May 12.

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Related Topix: Robert Mueller, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mon May 13, 2013

China Daily

Report says advantages of China's aid to Africa

When Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian-born economist, wrote in her book Dead Aid that traditional aid from Western donors had largely failed African countries, fostering dependency, encouraging corruption and perpetuating poor governance and poverty, she said China provided another approach and gave Africans the ability to choose their own way to develop.

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Related Topix: Brigham Young University

Penn State

Kathleen Bieschke appointed new department head

Kathleen Bieschke will become the new department head for the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department in the College of Education at Penn State on July 1. In her new role, Bieschke will oversee two undergraduate, four master's, and four doctoral programs for the college.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science, Illinois State University

ContractsProf Blog

Boilerplate Symposium: The First Five

We begin our online symposium on Margaret Radin 'sbook, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law with five posts this week.

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Related Topix: California, Activism, Harvard University, New York University, Duke University

Sun May 12, 2013

Hampton Roads Daily Press

W&M grads urged to strive for integrity, service, patience

WILLIAMSBURG Amid references to integrity, service and Lady Gaga, the College of William and Mary on Sunday conferred degrees to more than 1,900 students at William and Mary Hall.

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News