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a snowy campus scene with Old Main and a backdrop of the snow-covered Wellsvilles

Spring is coming

February 26, 2021
4:01 pm
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Towering 4,000 feet above Logan, students are constantly watched over by the Wellsville mountains. Sedimentary rocks in the Wellsvilles settled

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an old timey plague doctor holds a selfie stick with an old fashioned camera on the end and says Gotta put this on TikTok

Laughter in Dark Times

February 25, 2021
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Medicine is not considered a bastion of comedy. Many doctors work in high-stress, high-stakes environments where patient health is at

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an illustration showing how memes can spread disinformation. It begins with one person generating the meme and sending it to another person. It frightens her and she shares it with another person who sees it and shares it and then the meme shows up on someone else's screen which shocks them and then they share it to another person.

The Dark Side of Memes

February 25, 2021
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A meme, for the uninitiated, is not just a cat joke on the internet. A meme is an idea or

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A black and white image from 1942 of a wooden Paul Bunyan statue atop a ladder. A group of men is using a firehose to keep people away while they figure out how to get Bunyan down.

Look Back: A Brief History of Aggie Pranks

February 25, 2021
8:16 pm
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Pranks, when done well, can be memorable, funny, and even unifying—particularly against a common adversary like Brigham Young University. A good

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a collage of illustrated presents, a notebook, two phones with text messages, a succulent, and a cartoon dinosaur atop a building

Accidental catfishing. The best prank one student never planned.

February 25, 2021
8:16 pm
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We asked, you answered: What’s the best prank you remember at Utah State University? While sifting through submissions we couldn’t help

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a person holds a basketball in the middle of the court of the USU Spectrum. His face is obscured by a Photoshopped head of Head basketball coach Craig Smith. The writing across the photo is a tweet saying "Dearest Mother — From the high plains in Wyoming to the warm Pacific shores— From sun-drenched deserts to the potato fields of the north— An Aggie banner waves above all lands of the western mountains. And it is all governed by Sam Merrill. — Craig"

The Blue and the Aggie Blue: Capt. Craig F. Smith and the mother of all Aggie Twitter accounts

February 25, 2021
8:15 pm
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Dearest Mother — Ideally, every time one clicked on a fresh tweet from @CaptCraigSmith, the latest dispatch written as if

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A photo collage of a man holding a phone surrounded by cut outs of popular figures from internet memes including LOLCats, O RLY owls, the gymnast Simone Biles, Guy Fieri, and relationship statuses such as SINGLE

What do the memes we share say about us?

February 25, 2021
8:00 pm
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In mid-January, the internet was awash in sea shanty videos on TikTok. A week later, memes of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders,

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a smiling young man wears an Aggie sweatshirt and looks up at the sky with fall colors behind him

Aggies Underground: Behind the Scenes With Gage Duffin

February 25, 2021
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During his freshman year, Gage Duffin didn't have big spring break plans, so he used his spare time to explore

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an outside wall in New York City with a cut out black and white photo of Bernie Sanders from an image that went viral

Joy

February 3, 2021
1:33 am
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2020 was not a year people often describe as joyful. In fact, May 29, 2020 was documented as “the saddest day

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