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schools

continuity

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point

great deal

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ACC commissioner John Swofford

said in line

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of

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contract

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games. Such for

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President Jessica Chilson said.

on

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School of Business will

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will

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conflicts became

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Frankfurt

that time.”

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began weighing

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Ellison Baars said. “We have the Red

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conflicts in

semester

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cruitment

two

was

have

we

thus

the

sever-

why

conflicts for space in the second and third

of classes second

several

week later, that’s

Cross blood drive in Von Canon and other

campus spaces for recruitment.

reserving

a

the

to

pionship

it

for.

The ACC has reached with ABC

seven-year

league got what

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FUQUA

ON PAGE

10

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