Keeping your clothes on-trend can be a pricey and time-consuming endeavor. As a college student with stereotypically limited funds, I knew I could only make a handful of purchases each season. So each bangle had to count. Each top needed to have more than three wears in it.
Full disclosure I am still very much…
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Alumni Corner: Greg Murphy
I remember it like it happened yesterday. Sometimes I still see the baseball flying deep into the night.
It was Oct. 5, 1997, and I was just over a month into my freshman year at John Carroll. The Cleveland Indians were hosting the Yankees in game four of the American League Championship Series. Trailing the…
Alumni Corner: Alumni Corner: Lex Tomaszewski ’01
Hey you. Glad you’re picking up the latest edition of The Carroll News with the intention of reading it cover-to-cover. Or stuff it in your backpack and pull it out later during classes like film & communication, sports journalism or campaign issues and images (all some of my favorites).
I did the same back in…
Alumni Corner: Alumni Corner: Clare Taft ’00, Carroll News Alumna
It is somewhat surreal to write a column for The Carroll News, sitting in my law office, rather than sitting in The CN office. I like to think that I did my best work while sitting at one of the Macs closest to the door, with the blinds open and Weezer’s “Pinkerton” playing in the…
Alumni Corner: Alumna Bridget Fitzgerald
Chicago-area alumnus Bill Burke may have said it best: “You can take alumni from 1957 through 2014 and they talk like they have known each other for years.”
Attending my first “12 Blue Streaks for Dinner” event in Chicago sponsored by the JCU Student Alumni Association was a true example of this. We walked into…
