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	<title>The Point News &#187; Tom Botzman</title>
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		<title>College Land Deal Questioned by Criminal Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State auditors are taking a close look at St. Mary’s financial practices after a routine audit arrived at mixed findings regarding a large land purchase made with a Trustee. <br /> <a href="http://thepointnews.com/2010/03/college-land-deal-questioned-by-criminal-board">Read More</a> ]]></description>
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		<title>College Operating Budget Turns to ‘Razor-thin’ Surplus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosa Trembour, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent economic downturn, the College has initiated a defensive budget strategy for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) and the future. Although it has not drastically changed from previous years, the new plan seeks to proactively increase the College’s revenue, and then spend that money as wisely as possible.
According to Chris True, the [...] <br /> <a href="http://thepointnews.com/2009/09/budget">Read More</a> ]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Search Update: Final Four Selected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Presidential Search Committee has invited four candidates to come to campus for a final round of meetings with the St. Mary’s College community, according to the Co-Chair of the Presidential Search Committee, Trustee Molly Mahoney.
With the help of a national executive search firm, Isaacson Miller, the Search Committee spent the summer reviewing over one [...] <br /> <a href="http://thepointnews.com/2009/09/presidential-search-update-final-four-selected">Read More</a> ]]></description>
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		<title>Grievance Filed Against O&#039;Brien</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Selle, Features Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous source delivered a copy of a letter to The Point News that was circulated to over twenty faculty members. The memo details a series of events leading up to a meeting between Professor Tom Barrett, the Chair of the History Department, and President Jane Margaret O’Brien and the aftermath of their encounter. Barrett [...] <br /> <a href="http://thepointnews.com/2009/04/grievance-filed-against-obrien">Read More</a> ]]></description>
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		<title>Salary Increases Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Selle, Features Editor</dc:creator>
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If anybody knows where the chart that appeared on the wall of the Kent Hall copy room came from, they aren’t saying.  Entitled “SMCM Salary Increases Since 2000,” the chart gives a picture of the disparity between the salaries of administrators and professors.
Since salaries are public knowledge, the chart could have been made by anyone [...] <br /> <a href="http://thepointnews.com/2008/12/salary-increases-explained">Read More</a> ]]></description>
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