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Note: The Icon recently invited members of the Bluffton University Communication 105 class to submit material for publication. The following is the third of a four-part series of "opinion pieces" by Whitney Zumberger, a member of the class. We invite viewer comments on this series.

Xenotransplantation-Any procedure that involves the transplantation into a human recipient of either live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman source.

Note: The Icon recently invited members of the Bluffton University Communication 105 class to submit material for publication. The following is the first of a four-part series of "opinion pieces" by Whitney Zumberger, a member of the class. We invite viewer comments on this series.

Note: The Icon recently invited members of the Bluffton University Communication 105 class to submit material for publication. The following is the first of a four-part series of "opinion pieces" by Whitney Zumberger, a member of the class. We invite viewer comments on this series.

All Internet service in Bluffton will be turned off on Easter Sunday as a precaution against potential wireless router damage. The blackout will occur from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m, Sunday, April 4, according to officials who have planned the event.

When no Internet service available, some Internet addicts will search for hot spots in the village that may be high enough on ground to pick up signals, although it is doubtful that many areas will be discovered.

Somewhere in a bookstore is a book titled "How to Lie With Statistics." We dusted that old timer off the shelf and present you a column on the "average" Icon viewer's opinion.

Based only on our frequent poll questions posed at the bottom of the home page, we've created the perfect snapshot of the Icon viewer. We aren't lying about the findings; we simply realize there's no scientific proof to our findings. So, perhaps we are lying with statistics.

Nevertheless here's's how Icon viewers have expressed themselves in several of our ever-so-serious questions:

Willis Sommer wrote the following about Leland Lehman, who died recently. In our mind, Lee is what a small town is all about. The views of Willis parallel our thought exactly.

Bluffton lost a faculty stalwart with the death of Leland Lehman. Lee came to Bluffton in 1968 as Professor of Economics after holding faculty positions at Dennison and Macalester.

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