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Wiffle ball fundraiser helps Make-A-Wish

Members of Lambda Chi Alpha won Chi Omega Fraternity’s Sky’s the Limit wiffle ball tournament in the small gym of the Penick Academic Complex on Saturday.

The fundraiser brought in between $2,000 and $2,500, enough money for Chi Omega to grant the wish of an 18-year-old girl with a life-threatening illness through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. They are sending the girl and her family to Disneyworld on April 6. […]

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Sports

Elbow surgery sidelines Roof

The last thing Derek Roof was thinking about when he threw the final pitch in the 2011 TranSouth Conference Tournament championship game was how sore his arm was. Instead, teammates exchanged high fives and congratulations after advancing to nationals for the third straight season.

Roof did not get concerned about the soreness in his arm until the ride home that day, when he realized he had pitched 14 innings in just two days, including a 9-inning complete game effort in the championship.

Fast forward to the 2012 season and Roof, junior exercise science major, is redshirted and sidelined by Tommy John surgery, a common elbow surgery among pitchers […]

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Arts & Entertainment

USA TODAY’s Hubbard reveals visual knowledge

Visual journalism, like a multitude of other job markets in America, is ever-shrinking and increasingly competitive. Garrett Hubbard may be the best man in the business — as evidenced by a slew of recently announced awards by the White House News Photographers Association — but his unassuming ambience would never suggest it. Then again, they say a positive outlook is everything, and as someone who is always the first to offer a word of comfort or the flash of a jovial smile, Hubbard has attitude in the bag.
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