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That would be the 9pm campus ministry Student Mass.<\/p>\n<p>And our Admissions office probably wants you to know that we are a selective university with high admissions standards and graduates who go on to\u00a0 etc. etc. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Tis the season \u2013 another academic year is wrapping up and profs are busy correcting papers and exams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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