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Student strives to be stand-up comedian

On any given day, Chris Ryan can’t go more than a few sentences without cracking a joke. The marketing freshman and budding comedian, who was chosen as the audience favorite at Last Spartan Standing last fall as a first-time stand-up performer, is trying to create a profession of laughter for himself.

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Connecting cultures

A little more than three years have passed since one of the largest earthquakes on record struck the coast of Japan and shook a nation to its core , killing more than 15,000 people . Thousands more went missing, and the amount of destruction the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami caused millions of dollars in damage to the country’s infrastructure.