Monthly Archives: May 2012

Could you really handle more finals?

Grad school may not be the answer

Congratulations. You’ve made it to your graduation after all of your hard work. It starts to sound like a sorry tune after a while, but you can’t get enough of it. It’s been the day that you’ve been looking forward to and/or completely dreading. You’re stepping into a big new world of opportunities, but somehow you feel like you’ll miss that routine of school.

Q&A: Fresh Millions

To clear things up, the name Fresh Millions is two words. Yes, there are two Facebook pages out there: one with the name as one word lowercase and one with two words uppercase. Geoff Earle from Fresh Millions explained that he first made the page with one word before they played shows, but promoters ended up spelling it as two words. So he wanted to change it, but after you get so many followers on your page, you can’t change it. His solution? Create a page with the name as two words. Along with this tidbit of information, Earle also discussed with UWeekly the band’s start and people’s first impressions of the members.

Stevie Ryan gears up for round two

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Stevie TV renewed for second season

Although Stevie Ryan has been creating hilarious sketches and improvisational videos for years, it’s only recently that she’s been cast into the same limelight as many of her comedic victims: other celebrities and reality TV stars. With her first season on VH1 still ongoing, last week, fans of Ryan were treated to an excited YouTube video announcement of her forthcoming second season.

Prism: Working with children

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Being queer doesn’t make you a predator

On April 25 Den Mother Jennifer Tyrrell of the Boy Scouts of America’s Ohio Cub Scouts Troop 109 was thrown out of the organization for being a lesbian.

Good deeds: Drinking unselfishly

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Cocktails for a cause

Planned Parenthood has been in the news a lot lately. While the organization has always had a mix of supporters as well as opponents, for years the organization has provided low-income women a place where they can take care of all their feminine health needs. Although the organization provides women with services ranging from pap smears to birth control, Planned Parenthood also services men and teens.

The highlight reel

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When was the last time you ever heard me compliment Jerry Jones on his football prowess as an owner and GM? Besides catapulting the Cowboys into another stratosphere of commercial success, JJ has been making some questionable calls when it came to personnel for quite some time now and folks in Big D were just sick of it. That tune changed, however, when Dallas made a bold move on draft day and traded up to get Thorpe Award honoree Morris Claiborne of LSU in the first round. Although Jerry has made many a bold move before, they were usually ones that left Cowboy fans scratching their heads instead of erupting in applause the way the Claiborne draft did. It seems like Jerry got it right again. Although the Cowboys didn’t exactly have the greatest draft, there are still many things to like about this group, and you have to respect Dallas’s desire to commit on improving its defense.