To: Calvin University Board of Trustees, President Greg Elzinga, Provost Noah TolyCalvin UniversityGrand Rapids, Michigan From: Timothy R. Van Deelen, Ph.D. Dear trustees and leaders

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A stream with no tributaries is a first-order stream. One with only first-order tributaries is second order and so-forth with ever increasing fractal complexity. So

“Read this,” she said. So I did. She’s our professional writer and her critiques of my offerings for my biweekly RJ blogging gig sting me

I am writing a film review of sorts, although I couldn’t tell you the last time before this that I had entered a theater and

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They ran the brush-hog late along the edge of the prairie. Winter-rank fuzzy stubble stems bristled from a beating off with a dull blade. An

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