Social networking Web sites have often been seen as a useless tool to occupy one's downtime. Facebook and Myspace, being the current leading social networks, keep users in contact with their friends and family and has been used as a means to broadcast oneself for the world to see.

The University Student Union (USU) is hosting an 'Up All Night' event during finals week in which they strive to create a comfortable studying atmosphere for students on campus.

Faculty and staff met in the Oviatt Library, Wednesday for a workshop discussing how to effectively adapt and deal with change within the workplace.

In a society where common words are being redefined such as marriage and gender, Women's studies saw the need to move with the times and change its name to Gender and Women's Studies in spring 2008.

When under the weather, there's nothing like snuggling up with a nice warm bowl of chicken noodle soup. For years, people have turned to the soup as a remedy to treat the common cold.

For the first time in my life I can truly say that I am proud to be an American. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be no where else but here, but I can admit that I lost hope for a second in our great country. As I stood in front of the television watching the results for electoral votes coming in, I couldn't help but feel on edge.

Between work, studying and sleep, students don't always have the time to watch their favorite shows and better yet go to the movies to catch a feature film. Now the relief of a life deprived of entertainment is just one click away with the new website Fancast.com.

'The Importance of Being Earnest,' a British comedy play, made its premiere at CSUN Oct. 10 -12 and 15 -19. This was a student production and was directed by Ron Popenhagen, and was performed in the Little Theatre in Nordhoff Hall.

The publisher of the Boise State University's coupon book recently made the decision to remove advertisements offering condom coupons. The book is passed out to students on campus as well as in the bookstore. According to bookstore managers on Boise's campus, they received complaints from both students and parents of students attending the school in regards to the advertisement.

Since 1985, AIDS Walk Los Angeles has raised $59 million for HIV programs and services in Los Angeles County and has grown to be the largest AIDS fundraising event in California.

When it comes to meeting new people and maintaining friendships, meeting in person is history. In the age of social networks, friendships are now only a click away.

Spike Lee's 'Miracle at St. Anna's' is a heroic and shocking film about a black battalion in Italy during World War II. The film, based on James McBride's novel of the same name, begins in 1983 when a postal worker shoots a customer in the chest in Harlem. As the police investigate the postal worker, Hector Negron, played by Laz Alonso, they discover a rare artifact tucked away in a crumpled Macy's bag that connects all the way back to when the Nazis blew up a Florentine bridge in WWII.