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“It’s wine o’clock somewhere,” says alcoholic mother

Charlotte Shields-Rossi | a&e editor In 2021, “Saturday Night Live” aired a skit called “Birthday Gifts,” where Trish (Aidy Bryant), a middle aged suburban mom, is opening birthday gifts from her friends (Regina King, Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman). The gifts start out tame, first with a sign that reads “wine gets better with age, I get better with wine.” They quickly evolve into … Continue reading “It’s wine o’clock somewhere,” says alcoholic mother

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Features, Features

Debate team looks ahead to first tournament

Eliyahu Gasson | editor-in-chief The 12-member Duquesne Speech and Debate Team is facing their first tournament of the year, and junior biology major Paul Horne said he’s excited to get on the podium. “It’s always a good angst or an eagerness I would say. It’s not anything bad or anything fearful. It’s more just kind of an excitedness to get out there and practice more,” … Continue reading Debate team looks ahead to first tournament

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Duquesne student turns hobby into a side-hustle

Rebecca Jozwiak | multimedia editor Five years ago, the world was a different place. Littered with masks, stay-at-home orders and virtual hangouts, the COVID-19 pandemic changed livelihoods across the world. For Duquesne University Junior Noah Imhof, the pandemic was the beginning of a new hobby: sports card collecting. A Gibsonia, Pa., native, Imhof found interest pre-pandemic in sports memorabilia through his attendance at Pittsburgh Pirates’ … Continue reading Duquesne student turns hobby into a side-hustle

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Columns, Opinions

Facebook playing with fire with community notes

Nick Fernbaugh | staff writer Meta, the parent company of Facebook, decided to rethink its application of fact-checking on its platforms. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, made the announcement in a video released on Jan. 7 that they would be ditching their established fact-checking system in favor of community notes. Everyone has instant access to information in the palm of their hand and can … Continue reading Facebook playing with fire with community notes

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Why Facebook’s clash with Australia is worth monitoring

02/25/2021 Alexander Wolfe | Staff Columnist Now that we’re beyond the initial 2021 spiral of news and it seems we’re in more normal times, outrageous current events are less obvious, but still easily found. Facebook became the first company in recent memory to attempt to use the power of its own brand to influence legislation. While the idea of Facebook’s brand having the power to encourage … Continue reading Why Facebook’s clash with Australia is worth monitoring

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Arts & Entertainment

Human Discoveries is Facebook’s hidden gem

Hallie Lauer | Managing Editor 09/26/19 I need everyone to take a deep breath and just bear with me for a couple hundred words. I have recently discovered a show on, drumroll please … Facebook Watch. It is an animated series called Human Discoveries created specifically for this platform. Human Discoveries is exactly as it sounds – it is prehistoric humans discovering the world. The … Continue reading Human Discoveries is Facebook’s hidden gem

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Social media has downsides, negative impact on users

10/25/2018 By Lauren Humphreys | Staff Columnist  Social media is the ultimate marker of 21st century social (or perhaps, anti-social) interaction. The ever increasing digital dominance of platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook make face-to-face human interaction a rare daily occurrence. We do not need studies to show us this — anyone who steps out of the house for more than a few … Continue reading Social media has downsides, negative impact on users

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Social media restrictive; limiting of real-life experiences

10/04/2018 By Kendra Kneisl | Staff Columnist  Social media is ever-present in our lives. We wake up and send streaks. We go to the bathroom and scour Instagram for likes. We mindlessly refresh Twitter between lulls in the conversation. Within the last decade, connectivity has gone from a somatic to an automatic function. We feel lost without those mobile devices clutched tightly in our hands. … Continue reading Social media restrictive; limiting of real-life experiences

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Freedom of the press essential to democratic society

Ollie Gratzinger | Opinions Editor 04/12/2018 When Bloomberg Law yielded a job listing from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in search of a contractor for a “media monitoring services” project, journalists around the country held their breath. This news, coming in the weeks following the emergence of the propaganda-laden Sinclair Script, sits uneasily in the stomachs of American media personnel. For those unfamiliar, the … Continue reading Freedom of the press essential to democratic society

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Opinions, Staff Editorials

Facebook’s founder Zuck struggles before Congress

By Duke Staff 04/12/2018 If you have ever visited the stairwell in between the fifth and sixth floor of Rockwell, you may have passed a large motivational poster featuring Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The quote next to his baby face reads “Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way … Continue reading Facebook’s founder Zuck struggles before Congress

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