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		<title>Under Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone!!! The Sycamore just wanted to let you know that it is under construction for the rest of the fall semester (coming up with exciting stories and concepts and making the website more awesomeified!). You can still send submissions to sycamoreeditor@gmail.com because we are currently doing the editing for our next edition (we are just taking our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren DeGaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to Naropa! I am so excited to spend this fall semester studying and enjoying the beautiful Boulder weather. I hope you are all excited, too. I would like to take this time to thank everyone who has ever been involved with The Sycamore &#8211; your contributions are greatly appreciated. We are very proud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sycamore Welcomes Two Staff Writers</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2778</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren DeGaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sycamore is proud to announce the addition of two staff writers to our fabulous team: Allan Andre and Erin Likins, both undergraduate students in the Jack Kerouac school, have recently joined our staff. Erin Likins is a first year student majoring in Writing and Literature with an interest in psychology and a penchant for poethics. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naropa Mourns the Death of Friend, Teacher, Mentor.</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2786</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren DeGaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Akilah Oliver 1961 -2011 Akilah Oliver was born in 1961 in L.A. In the 1990′s she founded and performed with the feminist performance collective Sacred Naked Nature Girls. For several years, Akilah lived and raised her son Oluchi McDonald (1982-2003) in Boulder, Colorado where she… was a teacher at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board of Trustees Remains Silent on Prarie Dog Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody Spyker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first prairie dog pups of the year have peeked out from their burrows and the Naropa community continues to wait for public communications from the President’s Office or the Board of Trustees relating to the report of the black-tailed prairie dog population at Nalanda campus. A petition calling for the release of the prairie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naropians Not Navel-Gazers: Media Survey Results Surprising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>June Kellum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By June Kellum and Derek Pyle Would you have guessed that politics is the most popular news topic at Naropa? We, a group of three undergrads, were surprised by this revelation, which came from a media preference survey we did this semester as a Civic Engagement project. Initially, we had set out to investigate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lament for Akilah Oliver</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Waldman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lament “In which pocket did I leave that “I”? Is “I” ever anything to miss, a personage to mourn…”- A.K. for Akilah Oliver And now the words And now the words I am grieving all by myself All by myself and then with others She’s alone on the bed, dead in her clench Without all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Look Inside The Seventh Annual Women of Naropa Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Andre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my partner and I arrived in Shambhala Hall, we immediately felt a sense of ease. The Hall had been transformed into a lounge with the simplest of means: turning off the overhead light, adding a carpet, bringing in some modest decorations. There were two small shrine tables in the room to consecrate the space. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JLP</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2776</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Likins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though a man of the armada, I am one who defies orders when the guttural grip tells me so. As Captain, I must remain firm and true; my senior officers tend to see right through anything but. I take tea – Earl Gray, hot – as my beverage of choice and relish a rare hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Rachel, From Quinoa Queen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Palmateer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Rachel! I recently started eating quinoa for the first time in my life and, well&#8230; It&#8217;s coming out the other end!!! Does this mean I&#8217;m not digesting it at all??? I told my roommate about it, and she said that the same thing happened to her. She and I both ate different colors of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message of Gratitude from Development Staff</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2701</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Development Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following message does not represent the views of The Sycamore or its constituents.)   All Gratitude to the Naropa Community The Development team wishes to extend our gratitude to all faculty and staff for their ongoing service to our community. Faculty and staff give daily in so many ways. We consider all staff and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to the Community: Important Facts Worth Sharing</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2709</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editorial Board</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Community, Since our founding over one year ago, we have received support from countless members of our community. For instance, Charles Malone, Residential Hall Director, helped the paper in its early days by sparing valuable personnel who could teach us how to design our print layout digitally. On a separate occasion, Barbara Schmidt, Vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winona LaDuke speaks at CU</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2688</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren DeGaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, April 21, 2011, at 7pm, Winona LaDuke, an ecologist and pioneer for environmental justice, gave a presentation on Indigenous Sustainability at CU Boulder. The event was hosted by CU’s Environmental Center and Cultural Events Board. Winona opened the presentation by introducing herself as a member of the Ojibwe people from the White Earth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodhi Cheetahs Kickin’ It Naropa Style</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2692</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody Spyker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Game: Picture if you can this past Wednesday evening: the sun is starting to settle into the Flat Irons to the west, billowing clouds sit heavily in the open sky, and long shadows are cast from running figures in shin guards and jerseys. The setting was Pleasant View soccer fields, and the beautiful game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waldman and Writers Work Weekend Alchemy</title>
		<link>http://thesycamore.org/?p=2755</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren DeGaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the end of the year approaching, a group of writing and poetics students gathered in the Room Full Of Windows on the west side of Lincoln Hall on Saturday Morning, the 16th of April. As we trickled into a society of desks, I took notice of those who had also been in February’s Weekend [...]]]></description>
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