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N' case y'all missd it, thishere weekend Jaret Leto had a cold wile a'visitin Moscoe. Luckilee, he (er someone un his'n staff) wuz bull ta collect un impressif' array o'Russiun homeopathic an' drugstere products n' un effurt ta quell whutever ailet 'im: Dinn'r. #calledinsick...

"Kelly's Song" recorded live at Subcat Studios in Syracuse, NY. Filmed by Irina Dvalidze, Josh Eisenfeld & Michael Armour Edited by Irina Dvalidze, Josh Eisenfeld & Sarah Aument Check out www.halfsistermusic.com for more!

2. If your topic is turning out to be not what you hoped for, don't be afraid to change it. It is your work and it should make you happy not miserable. While I may still be set on my ice harvesting research, one of my fellow classmates changed his topic fairly last minute. While he may be stuck with extra research now, he ended up with a subject matter that that is so on point that it turned the rest of us green with envy. (Just so you know, he started out with the subject of slavery, which turned out too be far too broad for him to do it justice in 25 pages. So he switched to gun trade in early America, which I think is pretty baller)  3. Outline is your best friend. The more specific information you can spit out onto paper, the easier the final draft will be to crank out. Plus seeing minute details can help you view the bigger picture clearer.  4. Speaking of minute details. It will make your life a lot easier whenever you are researching something, to start small and work your way out to the overall purpose of your research. This was particularly easy in my case, since I had to look at a commodity and the observe how it reflected history. Little did many of you know that ice trade completely changed the dietary habits of human population all over the world. (That was my condescending moment of the day, take note)  5. When working with the word count so long, be sure to go back and reread. Sometimes the fact that come up as you are going through the research can become contradictory to the things that you initially concluded. You must revise your prior conclusions by considering the new information that comes up.  6. Stay on topic. It is easy to go on tangents when you have this much room to work with. However this doesn't mean that you can't relate essential information that is tangentially relevant, just make sure that you come back to your topic and tie it all together. (It is also a nice sneaky, yet totally justified way to push up the word count a little) 7. Do not compare your research to your peers too critically. All topics are different. Some have more resources relevant to them than other, so DO NOT FREAK OUT when you see your classmates hauling thirty 600 pagers out of the library. If you are like me and have a topic that has less research already available on it, don't scrutinize yourself for not working hard enough. That is probably not the case at all. So take a deep breath and digest all the information that you already have so that you can deliver it to others in a way that makes sense and stays interesting.  

Cuse has lots of notable alums, but very few, other than the dude that wrote (500) Days of Summer, have as much indie cred with campus “hipsters” as Pete Yorn. So in case you let the grand blizzard of March 6th, better known as the snow storm to cause University Administration to cave and cancel class for the first time in 15 years, worry not. As always Jerk was there to bring you front row coverage. Yorn covered a lot of his older pieces, some may argue his best, as well as few tracks from his latest self-titled release. Turns out he drew a large chunk of inspiration from his time at cuse. Yorn admitted that he must have gotten so involved in music, because he had to spend most of his time snowed in practicing, which may explain how this Communications and Rhetorical Studies major ended up in California

Jerk Magazine Launch Party  Magazine in hand, music in ears, waffle in mouth...Join us as we ring in the new JERK! Friday, Oct. 8 @ Funk 'n Waffles Featuring:  The Rule of 17 The Northbound Traveling Minstrel Jug Band Jason & Sander (It's going to be pretty awesome, if we must say so ourselves.)

– Irina Dvalidze