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YOLO is what you make it

By Beth Schumacher | August 28, 2012

To YOLO or not to YOLO, that’s the beginning of this semester’s question. The acronym, which means you only live once and which was made popular by hip hop artist Drake, has taken quite the beating from those who follow Jack Black on Twitter. A tweet...

Only living once turning into a popluar fad poor choices

Only living once turning into a popluar fad poor choices

By Troy Doetch | July 1, 2012

Just as a suburban white girl says her iPhone case is “ghetto,” as your dad calls your friends “dawgz,” so did I start using the acronym YOLO, ironically, with the intention of being cute. But things got a little out of hand. YOLO, I guess. As...