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Dear readers,
Phoenix of Alpha Sigma Alpha (USPS 430-640) is
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, cherish life’s simple pleasures.
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Recently my 3-year-old niece lip-synced the chorus of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” and her mom sent me a video of it in a text message. While her performance wasn’t quite Jimmy Fallon lip-sync battle worthy, I couldn’t help but watch it over and over again. Life’s simple pleasures.
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EDITOR Katie Matis Smith, DH
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Three boys under the age of 12 live in the house across from mine. Every day when I come home, they are outside playing in their back yard. They play baseball, basketball, and they just run around with each other. They tend to get in arguing matches too, which I also find entertaining. I just realized the other day how much I expect to hear them when I come home, because that day they weren’t outside. Their absence threw me off, and I missed hearing their laughing and playing. These boys remind me of my brothers and I growing up, and how we lived so much of our lives outside in our back yard (and of how much we would get on each other’s nerves). Life’s simple pleasures. When I think about the Creed of Alpha Sigma Alpha, I smile knowing that it encompasses this thought of cherishing life’s simple pleasures. To find dominant beauty in art, literature, nature and friendships… To love life and joyously live each day to its ultimate good.
Nancy I.Z. Reese, BΥ
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This is my creed, and I hope I never miss a beat. Perhaps receiving the Phoenix magazine is one of your life’s simple pleasures. I hope you enjoy and take it all in. Enjoy!
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IS COLLEGE
STILL WORTH IT? As tuition continues to increase, we dive into answering whether college is still worth the price tag.
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