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Royal Purple

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Royal Purple

“The worst piece of college related advice that I have ever read on the internet is to bring a bunch of clothes so that you don’t have to do your laundry as often. In hindsight this seems like a great idea, that is, until you are stuck doing 6 loads of laundry because you have no clothes and brought most of your closet. It suddenly feels overwhelming and in retrospect it would have been a better idea to simply have brought less clothes and done a load a week.”

-Sydney Wojcik

What’s the worst college advice you’ve read online?

Alicia Dougherty, Editor September 26, 2021

In honor of International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) Tuesday, Sept. 28, the Royal Purple asked students about bad advice they've found online at times.

Separating information from misinformation

Separating information from misinformation

Alana Platt, Contributor September 26, 2021

The internet is a robust resource for gathering information. It is estimated that 63,000 Google searches are performed per second, which is roughly 2 trillion per year. However, the intertubes is a double...

Cyber attack on campus

Cyber attack on campus

March 21, 2021

Phishing emails are one of the many cyber attacks that advanced hackers are using to steal your or the universities information. A phishing email is an unverified email address pretending to be a company,...

Internet Access for all

Kylie Jacobs, Staff Reporter October 28, 2019

Internet for school is just as important as electricity was to citizens in the 1940’s, at least, that’s what State Representative Don Vruwink is pushing. In a message sent out to those in Walworth...

Graphic by Alyssa Miles

Students should be concerned with online privacy

February 26, 2014

Feb. 26, 2014 Editorial Staff Opinion In the age of the Internet, it has become the standard for people to communicate online. According to the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of people ages 18 or...

Internet speeds cause for concern

Internet speeds cause for concern

November 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013 By Kevin Demerath By Lucas Wimmer UW-Whitewater students have recently experienced slow Internet due to an overload of devices connecting to the Wi-Fi. With Internet being such a...

Internet: privatized commodity or right?

October 30, 2013

Josh Hafemeister On Tuesday, Aug. 20, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, posted an article on his Facebook page titled “Is Connectivity a Human Right?” In this article, Zuckerberg said...

Students should sacrifice free music for Internet freedom

February 1, 2012

With the recent suspension of the proposed SOPA bill by Congress, many students and young people are emitting a sigh of relief. Yet this doesn’t mean we are safe from an intense governmental censorship...

The network: living transparently online

October 12, 2011

What do you think of when you hear the word database?  Do you think of statistics or information; formed from a collective process that may ultimately display some sort of end total, ratio? Even a percentage? Maybe,...

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