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For an Internet celebrity is born this day! Retweet! Retweet!
Ugh. Who am I kidding – I’m jealous.
Had I grown up in another time, been born in a different year, things would be remarkably different. I could be achieving so much just from losing a tooth. The book deals! The TV shows!
You’ve seen it by now. [...]

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Let the snow fall

January 29th, 2009 by Dave Studinski

The Locker Room, Ball State University Village – It’s 2 p.m. Wednesday and a collection of friends have gathered to celebrate the rare occurrence of a college snow day.
No, not everyone’s drinking. It’s midday in the Village; the minors are around, too.
Status messages from Twitter, Facebook and chats exemplify the communal excitement shared by those [...]

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As Mother Nature shoves Muncie in the deep freezer – somewhere between the bulk mini-corn dogs and those 500 meatballs left over from your high school graduation – everyone’s all atwitter about how miserably cold it is.
It is, in fact, miserably cold.
Listen carefully and you’ll notice a trend in phrasing this time of year. Never [...]

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[Fade from black. Cue music.]
Aside from a cup of cheer, nothing gets you in the seasonal-celebration-of-your-choice mood better than a lovely collection of holiday music. And whether it’s for a fireside study session or a sleigh ride through Minnetrista, this year you can bring home the [...]

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Question: What’s stumbling down University Avenue in a flurry of misery, chaos and deceit?
No, not the angry, stiletto-heeled girl whose fake ID just got denied at the Locker Room.
Answer: The Village.

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The Ball State Daily News | BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Grand election circus comes to a close at last – FORUM.
A dense haze still surrounds my recollections.
I awoke Wednesday wondering what I slept through and what I actually experienced. The haze began to lift, but the specifics were still quite fuzzy. I’ve pieced together the accounts from [...]

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