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Central Michigan University presented full tuition scholarships Wednesday to Rex and Malessa Wing, parents of quintuplets born Jan. 30 just outside of Mt. Pleasant in rural Coe Township. Based on CMU's current rate of $213 per credit hour, the scholarships could potentially save the Wings $132,060 over the four-year period in which the children would be enrolled at the university. However, factor in nationwide inflation averages and the cost of sending five children to college for four years, and the cost balloons to $431,955. While each child would still need to meet the university's admissions criteria for the scholarships to go into effect and would still be responsible for paying room and board, the scholarships are still an unbelievable gesture in the eyes of the Wing family. »
In the past year, the lack of musical events on campus has been quite bothersome. Aside from the music department's annual recitals as well as several other guest performers (both of which do a wonderful job, by the way), we here at Saginaw Valley have been privy to a lengthy dry spell from musical activity on campus. »
After three years of communications courses, I can say with the utmost confidence that communications is, absolutely, undeniably, the most difficult academic discipline to grasp. Perhaps this is because, unlike students in other fields, graduates of communications are not communicologists, like students of sociology are sociologists or students of anthropology are anthropologists. Studying communications does not afford one a specific title; being an "expert" in communication is somewhat of a misnomer - the discipline is so broad and encompasses so many distinct sub-fields that being a "master" of communication is indeed quite unlikely, if not impossible. Instead, communications scholars study the many, many, many sub-fields of communications, which are so numerous that time and/or space constraints limit even the briefest mention of them. »
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