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The affluent and the desperate in Argentina

Sobered by Argentine poverty, Michael Fox sees how the other half lives in a city that is sharply divided between the privileged and the poor.

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How much has changed in South Africa?

Writing from Cape Town, Leigh Greaney speaks of the racial divide that still haunts a once colonized country.

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From Argentina right back to the SGA elections

Collegian columnist Mike Fox advises students to take a minute and vote in the SGA elections. He is currently attending the University of Buenos Aires and looks to the example there for a model.

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Thoughts from the Argentine dance floor

Mike Fox narrates on the life and times of an outsider in the “real” neighborhoods of Argentina, in the name of jumping feet first into a new experience.

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Cultural Electricity

Before she went to study abroad in South Africa, Leigh Greaney had been told about the “culture shock” that she would experience. What really shook her, though, was not the poverty or hunger, it was the people.

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Argentine culture through the people’s smile

At an Argentine fair, Mike Fox experienced a rush of both native culture and foreign globalization. But after seeing the people in action, he saw what truly mattered to the people.

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Live from Israel

Eli Gottlieb is a supporter of the state of Israel. Now, he’s putting his money where his mouth is and heading to the Middle East to experience it himself.

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