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Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

Valentine: Starting over

January 16, 2015

“Nothing is written in stone,” says the old Irish adage. “The future is yours to create with your own hands.” When the sun comes up on the next...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

Valentine: Try it; you might like it

April 25, 2014

Murray State becomes a whirlwind of activity in the spring. Many students survive the experience, some find their grades in shambles and some missed...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

Valentine: April is the coolest month

April 18, 2014

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. An excerpt of...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

Other things to unlearn before you go

April 11, 2014

There is time enough to learn more before you graduate college in May, especially if it’s not May of 2014. As we mentioned in this space last week, you...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

Valentine: What to unlearn before you go

April 4, 2014

There is time enough to learn more before you graduate in May, especially if it’s not May of 2014. There’s also time to unlearn some things. That’s...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

Valentine: What I have learned in college

March 28, 2014

Spring Break has come and gone. We enter now into a season of the year that is not quite spring and decidedly not winter. We are either refreshed...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer
in advertising

The complete history of Spring Break

March 13, 2014

Spring Break has come. This long-standing seasonal phenomenon is actually a relatively new arrival on the long list of university traditions. We...

Robert Valentine
Senior lecturer in 
Advertising and Mass Communications

The language virus is totally infectious

February 14, 2014

Slowly but surely, a language virus of the most virulent kind has worked its way east from the valleys of California, carried on the air by television...

Robert Valentine portrays University founder Rainey T. Wells. || Kylie Townsend/The News

Valentine portrays role of University founder

October 22, 2012

In recognition of 90 years as a school, Murray State faculty hosted “Rainey T. Wells, Founder of Murray State University as depicted by Robert Valentine.” Held...

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