The local television station doesn't shy away from asking questions, as is evident by their recent stories about Ave Maria. When it's the one being asked the questions, however, Fox 4 clams up, as The Ave Herald learned when inquiring about the station's "Viewers' Bill of Rights."
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Freshman guard Erica Derks paced the women with 19 points in a 75-37 win over College of the Bahamas Friday, improving the team's record to 4-2.
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Ave Maria University President Nick Healy told students in an email Wednesday that the university does not "make any effort to restrict speech by students." His email referred to "recent publicity about supposed curbs on freedom of speech."
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 This 1954 film, third in Ave Maria's Classic Film Series, stars James Stewart and Grace Kelly and is generally regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock's best pictures. Dr. Paul Baxa, who will lead the discussion following the film Nov. 19, also views it as prescient about American life 55 years later.
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Fr. Robert McTeigue blessed a gathering of instructors, students and friends before the grand opening Monday of the Ave Maria Dance Academy. The studio offers instruction in all types of dance, plus fitness and karate classes. (Photo by Rachel Smolinski)
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The local television station broadcast three stories about Ave Maria in the last week. Do these stories live up to the station's "Viewers' Bill of Rights" in your opinion?
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There are no issues that the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District needs to address, advises the district's lawyer in a memo, which also concludes that the district complies with all Florida statutes. This matter was discussed, at times somewhat testily, at the district board's Nov. 3 meeting.
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Adriana Vianna (right) was named to the All-Conference Team and Saira Morgan (left) received the 2009 Champion of Character Award.
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Fr. Benedict Groeschel visited the Donahue Academy Monday spoke at the morning Mass. Sunday, on the Ave Maria University campus, he told an audience of students, staff and residents that all religions, including Catholicism, are seeing a push toward orthodoxy. (Above photo of Fr. Groeschel with at the Donahue Academy with headmaster Dan Guernsey courtesy of Roy Lenardson)
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The donation from businessman and philanthropist Tom Golisano will enable Ave Maria University to build its first indoor athletic facility. Above, an artist rendering of the Tom Golisano Field House.
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Pits dug for fill near the entrance to Ave Maria will create two new lakes, one of which will be available for recreational uses such as boating or fishing, reported Barron Collier's Tom Sansbury Tuesday at the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District Meeting. The road widening project will be awarded by year-end.
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Sculptor Márton Váró (above, beginning work) has returned from Italy to continue carving The Annunciation sculpture for the oratory. The sculpture is now about half completed, he says.
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Children dressed as saints and other characters flocked to the town center Saturday for the All Saints Party sponsored by La Piazza merchants. Above, Gabe Wallace, playing When the Saints Come Marching In, leads a parade around the oratory at the close of festivities.
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Ave Maria University Dean of Faculty Michael Dauphinais received a check for almost $34,000 from the Ave Maria Friends of the Arts Wednesday. The money will benefit a number of programs at the university.
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 A Solemn High Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated Nov. 2, All Souls Day. Parish Administrator Fr. Robert Tatman will be the celebrant at the mass, at which the Ave Maria University choir will sing the Requiem Op. 9 by Maurice Durufle.
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 Four classic works of Alfred Hitchcock will be shown and discussed during the next few months. The program, which features a screening followed by a lecture and discussion at the Queen Mary Pub led by an AMU faculty member, begins Thursday, Oct. 22, with The Birds.
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Putting a tumultuous few years in Michigan behind it, the Ave Maria School of Law is rebuilding in southwest Florida. Acting Dean Eugene Milhizer says the school's incoming first-year class is larger, with better credentials than previous years. Above, Prof. Patrick Quirk teaching a course in Moral Foundations of the Law.
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Ave Maria University President Nick Healy discusses Ave Maria University and what sets it apart from other Catholic colleges in a 15-minute video that is part of the Naples Daily News series One on One with Jeff Lytle. At Ave Maria, Mr. Healy says, "the Catholic moral life can be lived joyfully." The interview is online here and can also be seen locally Sunday at noon on Comcast channel 14.
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Cell phone reception has improved in Ave Maria -- at least for customers of Verizon which has started service from a new cell phone tower. AT&T service is expected in the next few weeks.
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