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Current issue:  May 7, 2008
Central Connecticut State University 
   News
 
Bookstore Prepares for Buy-Back Season

While it’s a busy end of the semester for the student-run CCSU bookstore, the staff over at the corner of the student center is prepared for the deluge of students and used textbooks, especially with their guarantee of 50 percent return.

“Our team is proud as we continue to return the highest prices and guarantee 50 percent cash back on any faculty readopted textbooks (within our guidelines of course),” wrote Jack O’Leary, the CCSU bookstore director, in an email to The Recorder.

“This time of the year—it’s tough,” O’Leary said. “The publishers are out there trying to jockey the faculty.”
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Faculty Respond to RateMyProfessors.com

This time of year, RateMyProfessors.com seems to be running slower than usual—and with good reason.

The site boasts over six million ratings on over one million professors and six thousands schools; with 1,113 of those professors employed at CCSU and schedule revisions in full swing, the site’s popularity at this time of year is matched only by PipeLine and Facebook.

Political Science professor Dr. Jerold Duquette has been, the site claims, failing a good percentage of his students, who are in turn failing him. Duquette, however, said that the claim was completely unreasonable.
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Syrian Ambassador Returns to CCSU, Stresses Better U.S. Relations

Despite currently strained U.S. relations, Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha was optimistic when he addressed a dinner at the final Middle East Lecture series.

“Syria is not an enemy of the U.S. and the U.S. is not an enemy of Syria,” he said.

“It is no great thing to be invited once. The real challenge is to be reinvited,” he said of his return to CCSU. With a hearty laugh, the audience welcomed back the Ambassador. Along with laughter there was also talk of some very serious subjects.
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Don’t Drink and Drive, Kids

Robin Cullman of Mothers Against Drunk Driving said the spring of 2008 is proving to be a busy season for their programs to caution against drunk driving.

“We don’t want one of you to be on our screen next year,” Cullman said to the audience as she began Monday night’s visual presentation, where she and several other speakers shared their life-altering stories. These individuals stood strong when they recalled the nights they lost their loved ones and the 2 a.m. phone calls that changed their lives forever.

The program was made possible by CCSU’s Counseling and Wellness Center, Natural Helpers, MADD and Waterbury Hospital.
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