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#100

April 30th, 2009 by Dave Studinski

This is it. Column 100, and my last as a Ball State University student. That’s as freaky to me as it likely is to you. I’m finally graduating … again.
To every bar hopper, friend, random student and instructor who took the time to e-mail, text, tweet or verbally acknowledge the column, I give you my [...]

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“OK – I Understand,” the body of the e-mail says.
“GA Position?” the subject line reads, dated 11:15 a.m. June 19, 2007. It’s another response in an e-mail thread that brought me back to Ball State University for graduate education and two years of college life I never had as an undergraduate.
Of all message threads to [...]

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This column was written Sunday night in just under two hours. It was submitted to the DN in the wee hours of Monday morning for use this week, although it’s my off week on the schedule. The week was filled, so the lil’ column sat in the corner. I asked the DN to run it [...]

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This may be the fastest column I’ve ever written – technically and literally.
I’m traveling about 464 miles per hour somewhere over Missouri. My awareness of this statistic is courtesy an announcement from our flight captain. I’m writing on deadline today. Well, today is yesterday by the time you read this – but never mind with [...]

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A black ski mask.
In the middle of a Sunday afternoon on campus, its presence was fashionably obnoxious. Not just because of the timing, but also the weather. Though it’s late March and a bit chilly, the conditions were not intolerable enough to warrant winter weather gear.
The mask covered the face of a more portly character [...]

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More than ever before, Facebook is a weapon in the battle for our university’s highest student office. This Student Government Association election again solidifies our dependence on the networking site, and our generation’s growing acceptance with passive communication, and really odd behavior.
Facebook exists in its own reality, subject to a separate world of cyber trends [...]

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