Posted At: October 9, 2013 4:27 p.m. by Sarah de Jong It is finally the season of football, sweaters and crunchy leaves. As a child, fall meant eating candy corn until your stomach hurt, then consuming even more on Halloween. Well, move over candy corn; pumpkins are officially “in.” Pumpkins are everywhere, and I’m not […]
Posted At: October 7, 2013 2:30 p.m. by Jacquie McMahon Standing in the crowd as five college students open for Dispatch and Wiz Khalifa, you might wonder how that happened. But if you know Mother Funk’s lead singer Josh Ferrell, you’re not even surprised. Ferrell instantly becomes best friends with anyone he holds a conversation with, […]
Posted At: October 7, 2013 1:30 p.m. by Christi Rich The hit ABC drama “Scandal,” while a compelling show, may pose a threat to the reputation of true crisis professionals. Main character Olivia Pope, a crisis manager in Washington, D.C., worked with her colleagues to clean up a murder scene surrounding one of her employees […]
Published At: October 6, 2013 8:30 p.m. by Jacquie McMahon Public relations is “practically as old as society” according to industry forefather Edward Bernays, but the education for the profession is still relatively new. Public relations only became a widely accepted college major in the late twentieth century. Now, our Intro to Public Relations classes […]
Posted At: October 4, 2013 8:30 a.m. by Lexi Holdbrooks You know that one mortifying nightmare where you are standing stark naked, in public, and everyone is staring? For some reason you left for work or school that day and thought it was absolutely normal that you had no clothes on. Maybe you did it for […]
Posted At: October 3, 2013 1:00 p.m. by Jessica Smith Do it yourself (DIY) blogs have been on the rise during the past couple of years largely because of Pinterest and people’s desire to make their own projects for less. Some of the more successful blogs are seeing hundreds of thousands of views per month […]
Posted At: October 3, 2013 11:40 a.m. by Courtney Cox What’s the first thing you think of when you hear Lady Gaga’s new single “Applause?” For me, it’s human-sized hamsters wearing suits and sunglasses, closing the door of their bright green Kia Soul and turning to strut down a red carpet as fans cheer and […]
Posted At: October 2, 2013 2:49 p.m. by Sarah de Jong Cities are increasingly trying to recruit college graduates to their area workforce. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that during the 2013-2014 school year, colleges are expected to award 943,000 associate’s degrees, 1.8 million bachelor’s degrees, 778,000 master’s degrees and 177,000 doctoral degrees. […]
Posted At: October 2, 2013 2:10 p.m. by Aime O’Keefe https://vine.co/v/hgazKLULFm1/embed (Eric Simmons) It’s official. The government shut down Monday night because the House of Representatives and the Senate played hot potato with Obama’s budget. As the clock ticked down, social media exploded. Not surprisingly, there were plenty of humorous posts to lighten our mood: […]
Posted At: October 1, 2013 3:25 p.m. by Aime O’Keefe A hot topic in the news last week was the successful salvage of the Coasta Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, which ran aground on a coral reef last year. Through the effort of 500 scientists and technicians, the 951-foot wreck was righted […]
