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Bilkent Holds First Spring Swim Festival

Bilkent Holds First Spring Swim Festival

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Bilkent’s new swimming pool hosted its first competitive event on May 5. Organized by the Sports Center, the “Sports as a Way of Life” Spring Swim Festival attracted nearly 60 male and female swimmers.

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13th Angora Cup Sports Festival

13th Angora Cup Sports Festival

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This week, the annual Angora Cup Interuniversity Sports Festival will be held for the 13th time. Organized by the Physical Education and Sports Center, the festival will take place May 14-17. Approximately 450 students

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I had planned for this week’s topic (the last of the semester, in fact) to be very different. I had not planned for it to be about “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Alas, I didn’t

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Concert Review: Post-Hiatus Swans

Concert Review: Post-Hiatus Swans

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Last Saturday, I had the chance to see one of my recent favorite bands. Swans is an experimental post-punk/noise rock band from New York. The band was first founded in 1982 and released 10

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SPRING FEST 2015

SPRING FEST 2015

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Bilkent students celebrated an annual rite of spring last week, as Spring Fest 2015 brought out the fun-loving side of campus life. Stands set up in the Spring Fest area offered everything from food

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İDF Bilkent High School Hosts “Dance of Life” Meeting to Cap 2-Year Project

İDF Bilkent High School Hosts “Dance of Life” Meeting to Cap 2-Year Project

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Over the past two academic years, a project called “Dance of Life” has brought together students from five high schools in different countries—France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey—to learn about various aspects of

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Turkish Language Unit Instructor Publishes Two New Books

Turkish Language Unit Instructor Publishes Two New Books

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Ahmet Özer, an instructor in Bilkent’s Turkish Language Unit (Faculty of Humanities and Letters), has attained the impressive total of 33 published works with his latest two books: “Sulusepken” and “Sözün Nakışı.” Published by

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Ex Libris: News From the Library

Ex Libris: News From the Library

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Starting this week and continuing throughout the exam period, Main Campus Library will remain open every day until 3 a.m. Please note that this late closing time will apply only to the reading rooms

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