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A student boards the 3A Huskie Bus on Tuesday at the Holmes Student Center. The Huskie Bus system will be seeing new route changes next semester.

Huskie bus routes to see major changes

By Mariah Stubbs-Johnson | April 30, 2013

Huskie Transit will save more than $150,000 with its changes to the fall 2013 bus route system, said Seth Peritz, Student Association director of mass transit. Bus route changes have been made for fall 2013 to make the routes more effective and convenient...

The new Facebook makes finding information easier, but is still creepy

By Parker Happ | October 5, 2011

"Hi! Welcome to the new Facebook." Ugh. Again. When the new Facebook made its debut last month, I had as much interest in learning about new privacy settings as listening to an entire Gilbert Gottfried comedy audiotape. Yet, with all great and addictive...

The new Facebook changes are an invasion of privacy

The new Facebook changes are an invasion of privacy

By Alyssa Pracz | October 5, 2011

If you think the constant Facebook changes are annoying, just wait for what is soon to come. The new Timeline on Facebook is just another way to share more information than necessary online. It decreases users' online privacy and, at this rate, users'...

Journalism is becoming less and less respectable

By Aaron Brooks | March 7, 2011

When people ask me what I do, I tell them I sell crack. I tell them this not because I deal crack, but because it is much better to be thought of as a crack dealer than a journalist. As a crack dealer, my only clients are addicts; whereas being a journalist,...