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		<title>Educator offers advice for parents considering second child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erin Boyd-Soisson, associate professor of human development and family science, offers practical tips for parents considering adding a second child to their family in a May 16 FoxNews.com article.
Read &#8220;7 things you should consider before having another baby.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/05/16/second_child/</link>
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		<title>Professor remembers beloved author Sendak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, will be remembered almost as a member of the family, recalls Anita Voelker, associate professor of education, in a May 8 op-ed on FoxNews.com.
Read &#8220;Remembering Maurice Sendak.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/05/08/voelker_sendak/</link>
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		<title>Baseball bats and libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Lauer, director of the Murray Library at Messiah College, makes a comparison between the replacement of wooden bats with aluminum bats and the current state of change being experienced by libraries in an April 29 Chroncile of Higher Education article.
Read &#8220;Baseball bats and the wired library: a cautionary tale.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/lauer/</link>
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		<title>Admissions insights and advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Chopka, vice president for enrollment, recently answered admissions-related questions for College Xpress, a website devoted to providing straight-forward answers to students and parents about college.
Read &#8220;Advice for college from higher ed experts: John Chopka, admissions.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/chopka_advice/</link>
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		<title>Professor urges frank conversations about sexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenell Williams Paris, professor of anthropology and sociology, recently spoke at a Q conference about some surprising new statistics about Christians and sexual behavior. Some of Paris&#8217; comments were quoted in an April 19 Washington Post article.
Read &#8220;Evangelicals say it&#8217;s time for frank talk about sex.&#8221;  
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/professor-urges-frank-conversations-about-sexuality/</link>
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		<title>Alum&#8217;s art gains attention in Harrisburg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alumna Liz Laribee `07 is feeling right at home in Harrisburg: she is repurposing all kinds of materials&#8211;including cardboard and used doors and windown&#8211;into art as she connects with the broader art community. Laribee is featured in the April issue of Harrisburg magazine.
Read &#8220;Recovering/uncovering: The art of Liz Laribee.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/laribee/</link>
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		<title>Moderates a no-show for Pennsylvania primary election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to an April 29 Harrisburg Patriot-News article, &#8220;The number of lawmakers ousted or barely surviving close calls in Tuesday&#8217;s primary might suggest that Pennsylvanians don&#8217;t cotton to moderates.&#8221; Robin Lauermann, Messiah College professor of politics, adds, &#8220;The vast proportion of the public still sits in the middle of the bell curve, but they&#8217;re not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/lauermann_moderates/</link>
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		<title>Voting habits of women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robin Lauermann, professor of politics, is quoted in an April 26 AP story about how women have historically voted in presidential elections.
Read &#8220;Polls show Obama with big lead among women.&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/lauermann_women/</link>
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		<title>Sunflower project proves triple bottom line sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Campus Planning &#38; Management magazine is once again featuring a Messiah College sustainability story. In the April 2012 issue, CP&#38;M highlights the College&#8217;s sunflower initiative, a project that grows acres of sunflowers, harvests the seeds, presses the seeds into cooking oil, cooks cafeteria food in the oil, recycles the used oil, converts the used oil to biodiesel, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/30/sunflowers-3/</link>
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		<title>Messiah professor praises Tolkien&#8217;s contribution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christine Perrin, lecturer of English, joins a chorus of readers praising the contributions of author J.R.R. Tolkien in an April 13 Investor&#8217;s Business Daily article. &#8220;His writings can be read over and over and not be exhausted,&#8221; she responded.
Read &#8220;J.R.R. Tolkein pioneered modern fantasy novels with &#8216;The Lord of the Rings.&#8217;&#8221;
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/media_mentions/2012/04/16/perrin_tolkein/</link>
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