Faculty lining up for #SetonHill’s “Go Orientation” — new ceremony hands students from their parents to robed Hogwarts pretenders.

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Dani Girl (Oct 1-3, 2015) at the Geyer Performing Arts Center

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Advising incoming majors.

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To Learn More, This High-Schooler Left The Classroom

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Unscheduled Disasters in Journalism: Learn to Deal

In school, we expect our professors to answer our questions, to return our emails, to invite us in for a consultation, to pay attention what we say and read carefully what we write. One of the important lessons of being a student journalist is learning how to deal with the unexpected. Unfair things happen in…

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On a shelf in the slanty room under the stairs, next to her college textbooks, my mother kept a stash of inexpensive Peanuts paperbacks — dozens of them, which reprinted the newspaper strips, perhaps on a yearly basis, maybe more frequently. I spent many a summer afternoon reading through those books, and I remember sorting…

One wild place. (Sunday.)

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Amazon may well be the most evil company in tech

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After a successful piano recital.

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Facebook Should Pay All of Us

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Just wrote the first ending to my in-progress journalism game (created in Twine)

3,486 words, 120 links, 57 lexias, and currently this is the only ending.

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A serious summer activity.

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Introduction to Twine (Tutorials by Vegetarian Zombie)

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