Tag: Features

News, spencer schneier, technology

Streaming services for your first week of classes

Spencer Schneier    News Editor When introducing iTunes to consumers for the first time in 2003, Steve Jobs proclaimed that “we [Apple] think subscriptions are the wrong path.” Jobs also claimed that customers didn’t want to “rent their music,” making a point that someone will listen to their favorite song thousands of times in their life, as opposed to a movie where someone might watch … Continue reading Streaming services for your first week of classes

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Features, Human Interest, jessica matthis

Hammocks, health & student success

Jessica Matthis & Catie Byrne     Staff Writer          Features Editor Derek Plumb, entrepreneur and founder of Sweet Spot Hammock Hangers, aims to create a better atmosphere on campus for student health with unconventional means. Plumb has spent the past year enthusiastically developing a product that he describes as, “A multi-faceted solution to everyday things that most college students deal with.”   Plumb wishes for … Continue reading Hammocks, health & student success

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SLICE OF LIFE: Jerusalem Syndrome

Daniel Wirtheim, Features Editor It was this time last year, Christmas of 2013, that I decided to embark upon a non-denominational pilgrimage to Israel. I never planned on going until I befriended a Palestinian backpacker in Turkey who encouraged me to visit in Israel. “It’s not like on the television,” he said. “Plus the weather is very nice.” I was also pushed by my mother, a devote … Continue reading SLICE OF LIFE: Jerusalem Syndrome

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daniel wirtheim, Features, Slice of Life

Slice of Life: The Central Tel-Aviv Station

   By Daniel Wirtheim, Features Editor Published in print Sept.10, 2014       I arrived in Tel-Aviv from Jerusalem in the company of my friend Ameer, an Israeli citizen I had met on my backpacking tour. There’s only one port of entry into the city by bus and that is the Central Tel-Aviv Station. Before entering the station, a guard checked our bags with … Continue reading Slice of Life: The Central Tel-Aviv Station

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Features, mary mclean

Calculating the student budget

By Mary McLean, Staff Writer Published in print Aug. 20, 2014 The start of the new semester always brings familiar sights and sounds to campus. Professors walk around lugging suitcases full of syllabi, different groups take up the EUC lawn for team building exercises, and there are freshman trying to walk into Mary Foust because they haven’t figured out the difference between the dorm and … Continue reading Calculating the student budget

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Features, Mary Windsor

The Carolinian’s favorite summer swimming holes

By Mary Windsor, Staff Writer Published in print Aug.20, 2014 As mid-August rolls around and the weather outside grows hotter, muggier, and overall unbearable by the day, it is easy to want to stay inside and hide in the comfort of cool air-conditioning. When it’s so hot that the mercury mocks the head of the thermometer like an angry fist, a body of water is … Continue reading The Carolinian’s favorite summer swimming holes

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