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Three graduates earn Fulbright grants

Three 2013 Furman University graduates have been awarded English Teaching Assistantships from the Fulbright Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The students are: Sarah Johnson (Travelers Rest)....

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Media attend Furman debate watch

Furman hosted a debate watch in conjunction with the first of this year’s presidential debates from Denver. The event, sponsored by Furman’s College Republicans, College Democrats, Cicero Society and the Debate Club, featured interactive polling...

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Remembering an act of courage

On March 2, 1961, a large group of high school and college students gathered at Zion Baptist Church in Columbia. Their purpose was to peacefully confront the state government and the people of South Carolina...

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Baker v. Carr: O’Rourke recalls important case

Fifty years ago this week the United States Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr, one of the most important voting rights cases of the last century. It also determined that the right to vote and...

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O’Rourke recalls courage of James Meredith

In "Profiles in Courage," John Kennedy wrote that political courage is about character and the willingness to stand up in the face of mob hatred, to fight for what is good or noble in all...

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A team approach

by John Roberts, Communications Director After graduating from Lee University in 1999, Aaron Simmons took an unconventional approach to selecting a graduate school. A Florida native, he grew up pulling for the Florida State football...

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Calling out the masters of dysfunction

It’s autumn, and Congress has once again been again displaying its mastery of dysfunction. The legislators spent weeks sparring over who was to blame for the government shutdown and about the debt ceiling so the...

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Smythe interviewed on Fox Carolina

Furman business professor Tom Smythe was interviewed for a news piece on FOX Carolina TV about President Obama’s bus tour to Asheville, N.C., to promote his jobs bill. Smythe said the jobs issue is a...

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Professor Smythe says be prepared

While there is a growing consensus that America might avert the worst of the “fiscal cliff” at the beginning of 2013, there is still reason to be concerned about the possible expiration of the tax...

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Professor Smythe says Congress is the problem

It’s autumn, and Congress has once again been again displaying its mastery of dysfunction. The legislators spent weeks sparring over who was to blame for the government shutdown and about the debt ceiling so the...

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