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Eating Raw, Living Simple at Carleton

By Griff Wigley, on December 13, 2008, 11:18 am

Ben Haynor is a student in Doug McGill’s journalism class at Carleton College. He produced this 7-minute audio titled Eating Raw, Living Simple at Carleton.

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Holly Cairns says:

December 14, 2008 at 8:31 pm

You rock, Ben Haynor. Thanks for contributing.

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kiffi summa says:

December 15, 2008 at 9:11 am

Big future for Ben … an original thinker!

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