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I run the English-language Twitter page for VfL Bochum 1848, a 2. Bundesliga (hopefully soon to be Bundesliga) side. It’s part of my Year Abroad and something I get a great amount of joy from. It’s an account with just shy of 2000 followers and predominantly produces a wonderfully supportive community. People of all ages and nationalities brought together by their love of a former Bundesliga institution, based fifteen minutes down the road from Dortmund. Recently, Bochum got the 2. Bundesli...

Last term, Palatinate revealed that trials will begin next academic year to assess the viability of a ‘hybrid working’ approach. Now over a year into university online learning, Palatinate Comment asked two contributors for their opinion on the proposal. For: a well-considered new working regime would bring net benefits As we start to enter a post-coronavirus world, many will be wondering what we should take forward with us into the ‘new normal’ that is set to follow. Very little will...

I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) two years ago. It triggered something of an identity crisis. By default, autism had been a fundamental part of who I am despite knowing virtually nothing about it, either within myself or in the wider world. I was forced to reassess every part of my life. I’ve always loved reading. In hindsight, I realise that as a child I probably found it much easier to immerse myself in fictional worlds than to understand the real one. It’s not that oth...

No one likes to lose a break-up. Nearly five years after pulling off the most outlandishly one-sided divorce settlement since Henry VIII made state-mandated headlessness valid grounds for separation, David Cameron’s suspiciously featureless mug is back on our front pages. He got the house, the kids, and the tent in Saudi Arabia, and we got a border in the Irish Sea and Eton’s finest silly putty in a poorly-kept wig. A man so famous for apologising that the New York Times’ review of his re...

The plans for a European Super League (ESL), announced by 12 of the proposed founder clubs in a quite literal midnight coup on 19 th April, present very legitimate grounds to proclaim ‘the game’s gone’. Despite its rapid, inevitable collapse, the leading lights within these twelve clubs are all united by one thing; not only does this outrage not bother them, it doesn’t even affect them. Fans across the UK are hailing their newfound power. Above everything, they want to believe it was do...

"Political correctness is perhaps 2020’s most misunderstood and over-politicised term" Alexander Cohen and George Simms discuss the concept of political correctness in the context of recent events.

Florida International University 1970s Hope Jacobson 77, MS 85, EdD 98 was awarded the Bill Crutchfield Award For Outstanding and Distinguished Service from Special Olympics FL. She has been a volunteer with the organization since 1974 in a wide range of roles, including coaching athletes, teaching in the Athlete Leadership University (Academy), and fundraising and facilitating community-based programs. She also was a coordinator for Athlete Leadership Miami. Now retired from Miami-Dade County...

Sims finds his dog in a desperate situation. simms works out a rescue plan with the help of neighbor john applegate. >> shes about 60 feet out and i said we need an innertube and i have one, but i have to inflate it. i threw a 100-foot extension cord that was on the reel that was a tube secured to the extension cord. they gave me a push, and i just started making my way out to her. >> hey, chloe, george is coming! >> while sims struggles through the icy water firefighters arrive. it was not only...

Because another ten more minutes before everybody else got down there. >> as simms nears chloe it appears the dog is losing her will to fight. >> she wasnt really trying or struggling so much anymore and she got kind of really quiet. i really didnt think that we were going to get to her in time. >> she was running out of energy. any moment youre just afraid that you work your way to her, you get closer and closer and youre just afraid that youre going to watch her slip off and you just cant get ...

I ran inside and grabbed my dad and i told him there was a dog in the -- that it fell through the ice in the middle of the lake and we needed to go save her. >> mike jacoby calls 911. >> 911. >> im in countryview lake and there is a big dog trapped in the lake, in the ice and it is a dog trapped in the ice and he aint going to get out unless someone gets him out. >> well contract animal control. >> down by the lake the jacobies recognize chloe, a neighbors 16-year-old labrador retriever. >> she ...