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Planet Blacksburg’s new photo page

January 21, 2008 – 10:14 pm

Brian Sewell, Planet Blacksburg’s newest sports photographer has redesigned the photo door.
Sewell and PB’s current webmaster, Kevin Cupp, are both very talented photographers. One of my friends once said that most of the web geeks he knows are good photographers.
I think this site looks great now… a lot better than when I left it [...]

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Happy Graduation Class of 2007

May 11, 2007 – 3:56 pm

This is the day that you put in the back of your mind, and hope that you arrive to it in one piece. It’s a day where everything comes together. The realization that you never have to sit in a classroom again. Just when you thought that your scholastic adventures were over, they were just [...]

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Props to PB

April 19, 2007 – 1:11 am

I just wanted to thank Roland Lazenby, Neal Turnage, Kevin Cupp, Courtney Thomas, Tricia Sangalang, Anthony Della Calce, Omar Maglalang, Alex Rickabaugh, Tim Leaton, Jon Atwood, and every else who helped keep Planet Blacksburg up to date during this grieving process.

This community is stronger than ever, and our student population will grow and mourn together. [...]

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Information Explosion

April 18, 2007 – 7:55 pm

The past three days, I have spent countless hours in a classroom on the upper quad of Virginia Tech’s campus. The same classroom where I have sat for over 30 hours of academic credit. The same classroom where I took three of Roland Lazenby’s media-writing classes. The same classroom where the idea of starting a [...]

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A Brief History of Planet Blacksburg

April 13, 2007 – 9:47 pm

Imagine yourself in a 25-person computer lab on the upper quad of Virginia Tech’s campus on the first day of classes. Your professor walks in, and blasts,
You are all reporters for the Blacksburg Planet and your first story is due at 5:00 p.m. 19 cats are dead…

You had to construct your lead perfectly, and make [...]

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