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Professor selected to serve term as ACMS trustee

By Kacie Peterson, Rocket Contributor

When associate professor of exercise and rehabilitative sciences, Kimberly Smith, first attended the Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine as a sophomore undergraduate at Slippery Rock University, she was unaware of where the conference would take her.

Summer Plans...

Students take advantage of free time

By Ashley Rice, Rocket Assistant Focus Editor

As the age-old glass-half-full saying goes, students can either see this coming week as a hectic plethora of final exams, or a countdown until summer vacation. Considering the abundance of shorts and flip-flops, Frisbee in front of residence halls and even an occasional water balloon fight in the quad, it's obvious that many students are choosing the latter and counting down the days until summer.

Alumna awarded for post-graduation work, service

By Ashley Rice, Rocket Assistant Focus Editor

A 1985 alumna was chosen to receive the Distinguished International Alumni Award for 2008 by the SRU Alumni Association. Seeme Baqai Moreira was born and raised in Pakistan and graduated summa cum laude from SRU with a bachelor's degree in accounting. She currently works as a real estate agent at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.

Palmer's Grill provides scenic dining experience

Fine Dining

By Meagan Gribbin, Rocket Advertising Manager

Palmer's Taproom and Grill Oakview Golf Club 160 Ralston Road Slippery Rock, PA 16057 We've had our ups and a few downs as well, but overall this semester was full of some of the areas finest dining establishments. In a variety of restaurant genres from the atmosphere to the food selection, I hope to have provided you enough information to let you choose something that fits your taste.

Comedy film fails to think outside box

The Cinemaniac

By Brian McCumsey, Rocket Movie Critic

"Baby Mama" "Baby Mama" is a mediocre comedy. It's well-intentioned and mildly amusing but nothing more. The movie begins with Kate Holbrook, played by Tina Fey ("Mean Girls," TV's "30 Rock"), talking about her desire to have a baby. She is 37 and unmarried, adoption is not an easy process, and she finds out that her chances of conception are extremely low.

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