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Through music and media students stayed connected with the world.

FAVORITE Whether covering th e latest like the album cover flow Allyn Johnson sa id.
on the Iraq War or the newest feature, " sophomore Blake New phones with Inter-
BANDS AND ce lebrity mishap, advances in Oakey said. net access became more
ARTISTS technology all owed students Though new musi c de- common. It was convenient
to stay plugged in and in the vices were enjoyable, noth- that popular news web sites
know. ing compared to hearing the updated dai ly on a va ri ety of

KA To prese nt musi c in a musi c li ve. For th is, students topics. Students could find
new way, Apple introduced turned to local hot spots like articles or videos on anythin g.
the iTouch and iPhone. The Soko l Underground and Slow- "I don't have time to read
iT ouch was a new version of down. To ki ck off th e new the newspaper so I usually
the iPod, featuring a 3.5 in ch year, some students attended just rea d a few of th e head line
touch screen. The iPhone was th e free conce rt in Memorial stories on CNN.com or switch
equipped with a phone, iPod, Park. This year's band was the on th e TV during brea kfast,"
photo album, and Internet. It Plain White T's . junior Joe-Ann Moser sa id .
p
even all owed users access to a "Even though th is year's Beca use of advan ces in
Wi-Fi musi c store. conce rt had rain and mud, it tec hnology and simplicity of
"Apple prese nts the phone was a blast! I am glad it con- new devices, stud ents kept up
and music in in teresting ways, tinued after the rain ," senior with the big picture.

JUSTI

A. Freshman Susan Toth logs onto
Facebook to check messages on her wall.
Facebook wa s a M yspace alternative to
sta ying conn ected with friends. B. junior
Suresh Pavuluri uses hi s fl ash drive to load
his En gli sh paper onto a li brary computer.
Fla sh drives were an easy way for students
to save their work on one computer and
load it onto an other. C. Freshman Hamed
Sahaq sca ns th e head lines in th e li brary.
The li brary ca rri ed the "Omaha World-
Hera ld " and "USA Today" daily. photos by
Alex Jetter So phomore Jennifer Nguye n texts her fr iend on her new
iPh one. The iPhone was excl usive ly ca rri ed by AT&T and
cos t $399. photo by Alex Jetter

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