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Forgive me Union offers students, they the interests of students on Dear reader, for being slightly over enthused pale in significance to the Food University Committees to seek for another academic semester, Court project currently being changes that will make student Woohoo! You have picked up a copy of Semper (or had one forced into your hand by a harassing stranger)! but I am extremely excited undertaken. life all the more enriching. about what lies ahead for the If you know what Semper Floreat is then we are all very Union in the coming months! In the coming weeks and Finally, I would like to impressed and flattered. We hope this issue continues months, students will be given announce that I have launched the trend of gradual improvement in the magazine. 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