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SNAPCHAT GRADUATION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 that the Chats and Stories from your friends are on the left side of Snap- chat, and the Stories from publish ers, creators and the community are on the right,” stated the blog post. The company divided your friends from celebrities in efforts to separate your personal life. It seems as though the company had the right intentions. Model Chrissy Teigen tweeted that she missed the old Snapchat and the relationship she had with her followers on the platform. “I liked that you guys felt like we were friends. I’m sad it doesn't feel like that anymore,” Teigen said. Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel does not seemed worried about the bad press and opinions. He attend ed a Goldman Sachs investor event where he was very vocal about the company's changes and his reasons behind each decision. Spiegel reminded the audience that celebrities are just that, celeb rities. We start to feel as if we know them through social media but that is not the case. BROWN HALL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 before he got to spend the night. He missed almost all the activities that day. The only thing he had eaten before Brown was some oatmeal, which his whole family had,” Was- serman said. Wasserman’s boyfriend was not the only one who has experienced alleged food poisoning. “My friends and I have com plained several times about mild food poisoning and frequent stom ach aches after eating at Brown. We do not discuss it much because it is a very embarrassing subject,” said Caroline Kelly, a junior drama stu dent. In addition to these complaints, sophomore student Reilly Strong allegedly found wads of hair in the “Until now, social media has always mixed photos and videos from your friends with content from publishers and creators. While blur ring the lines between professional content creators and your friends has been an interesting internet ex periment, it has also produced some strange side-effects, like fake news, and made us feel like we have to perform for our friends rather than just express ourselves,” said the company in a blog post. Snapchat has become a place for users to start their theatrical pro ductions of the day. While I under stand what they were trying to do, they went about it in the wrong way when they automatically updated the app. This gave users no choice but to try to get used to the new for mat. “The next morning Buzzfeed posted an article about how to get rid of the stupid update,” DePaolis said. “My roommate and I spent 3 hours trying to get rid of this up date. We finally got it to the point where the format was back to nor mal then woke up to it updated once again. It was horrible.” gravy and mold on spinach, while sophomore student Stacy Sumner said she found plastic in her banana pudding. Consuming either of these could potentially lead to harming the student due to their unsanitary conditions or as a possible choking hazard. If this were to happen, in addition to being harmful to the student, the university’s reputation would be harmed. It is Brown Hall’s duty, as the main dining area the campus pro vides, to make sure those in the student body who purchase a meal plan receive quality and nutritious food options they confidently feel will not make them sick. At the mo ment, this does not appear to be the case. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 large extended family, but just like in high school, only a select few will be at graduation — grandpar ents and godparents at best. My cel ebration does not have to be May 12 at 9 a.m. for my accomplishments to be commemorated. And with my brother graduating high school in the middle of June, it will be pushed back until July for the joint party my mom’s planned since I started atUNCA. The limit of four guests also be comes tricky for those with sepa rated parents or more than a single sibling, a concern befalling a few seniors I know personally. Senior political science student Arlen Mill- ner said her choice would be down to her father or brother, two people she was not comfortable choosing between. The petition to return graduation to the quad spread by McGreal reached 1,095 signatures by Thurs day, the day after Urgo emailed the seniors an apology for the dismay caused by the announcement and a renouncement of graduation taking place in Kimmel. Many seniors took to the Eacebook page to celebrate, digital screams of victory flooding the page almost immediately after the email was read. Yet, this was not enough for some seniors. Roberts and Ben House, a senior atmospheric science student, are both working on plans for rain not involving the use of Kimmel. House discussed weatherproofing the quad in the event of rain, but in my opinion tents would obstruct views of the stage for many and take away from your relatives see ing your brisk walk across the stage. Roberts suggested the possibility of moving graduation back to May 13 to use the U.S. Cellular Center downtown, or switching venues with Asheville-Buncombe Techni cal College. A-B Tech reserved the event center for our scheduled grad uation date two years in advance. Torres and Millner both disagree with this “plan.” “I think that’s just ridiculous. Many people are complaining about the move to Kimmel because it im pedes family plans and plane tickets have already been bought, so mov ing it back a day and moving it off campus just sounds like a worse al ternative,” Torres said. “While I am not attached to where on campus the ceremony will be, I am attached to the idea of having the ceremony on campus. This is where I've spent the majority of the past four years, this is where I have put in the work, so this is where I would like to have that recognized.” This sentiment is one I get behind 100 percent. As the 90th anniversa ry class, our graduation should take place somewhere on campus — in doors or outside. To make us move it back a day, thus giving our fam ilies hotel and plane fees to pay to rearrange our plans, is inconsider ate. To do all this for some who feel they need — or deserve — more guests at the ceremony is thought less. Roberts stated on the Eacebook page the fee for use at the Cellular Center reaches $3,500, something he is either planning to crowdfund with help from angry parents and students or pay himself if need be — so long as he gets reimbursed. To me, paying for a place to grad uate is a waste when the quad and Kimmel are both free and campus has more available parking than downtown. The suggestion of shut tling people to the event center, also voiced by students in favor of the venue move, is impractical. If we each increase the number of guests we have to what the Cellular Cen ter can hold, it could take hours to shuttle them all to the event — thus putting another wrench into the uni versity’s and other students’ plans for the day. A group of seniors discussed taking their plans to Urgo and ad ministration on Monday. It is very unclear if they will give in to this greater demand of moving off cam pus. I am one of many seniors not in favor of the move. Only time can tell where we will actually get our degrees.
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