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Costumes we don’t want to see this Halloween

Costumes we don’t want to see this Halloween

By Morgan Carrigan | October 29, 2015

The time is upon us again — dressing up as a character for a night, roaming around campus; however, you may spot a couple of costumes we have all seen one too many times.These costumes are obvious and have a way of reappearing year after year, or they...

MySpace isn’t sexy, won’t come back

By Anthony Szudarski | September 30, 2012

He was able to bring sexy back, but will Justin Timberlake be able to bring MySpace back? After portraying a social network tycoon in a movie, Timberlake is apparently hoping to become one in real life by turning the old school site into the social awesome....

Timberlake to bring Myspace back

By Ross Hettel | February 19, 2012

That ad-ridden website from the early 2000s is making a comeback. The one with the garish layouts designed by 13 year olds. No, no, not Geocities. MySpace. After being bought out by Justin Timberlake and friends in June, the granddaddy of the social media...

Back in my day, college social lives were not on Facebook

Back in my day, college social lives were not on Facebook

By Phil Case | October 11, 2010

Running the risk of dating myself, I would like to preface this column by stating that I was lucky enough to experience one whole college semester (fall 2004) before I even knew what Facebook was.By the time I had given in, it was “thefacebook.com,”...