By Alec Belmore '16

Simply stated, I love the holidays. It’s a time filled with good cheer, good intentions, and good fun. If I had things my way, I would live in a holiday fantasy world all the time. Unfortunately, as a college student, there’s a real Grinch who is determined to ruin the holidays for all.

His name is finals.

Yes, finals are trying to ruin...

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By Erica Moriarty '16

A few weeks ago, my Introduction to Journalism class discussed the idea of oddity in news.

My professor lectured on the importance of information that has something peculiar about it – a quirk or abnormality that makes it newsworthy. He proceeded to ask how many people (in my class of fifteen students) knew someone who had been diagnosed with...

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