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TikTok is a leading marketing tool for businesses to creatively brand

Xenia Gonikberg • November 18, 2019
The video app, TikTok, is surprisingly becoming more and more popular among corporations. Although the app’s main audience consists of teenagers and young adults, more companies have started using TikTok as a platform to brand themselves.
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Blogger Tim Urban at a TED Conference on Dec. 3, 2016. TED CONFERENCE/FLICKR VIA CC BY-NC 2.0

Don’t always treat yo self

Emily Benson • April 29, 2017
Finally opened that Word document with instructions to that 10 page paper? Yeah, you can go get Chipotle.
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A server prepares food at West Side Dining. LUIS RUIZ DOMINGUEZ/THE STATESMAN

CulinArt: A cost-benefit analysis

Scott Terwilliger • March 29, 2017
All of this sounds spectacular, but why should we, as students, trust CulinArt?
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Shake Shack opened its newest location in Lake Grove on March 7. DOROTHY MAI/THE STATESMAN

Lake Grove Shake Shack prepares for first week of business

Dorothy Mai • March 7, 2017
The Lake Grove Shake Shack opened to the public Tuesday, but a few lucky customers got a taste of the famous burgers and shakes a day early during a soft opening on March 6.
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The first John Harvards Brewery opened in Cambridge in 1992. The restaurant/brewery only sells the beer they make there. Currently there are six locations, including the one in Lake Grove that will soon close. RYSTEN MASSA/THE STATESMAN

Shake Shack, Chipotle to replace John Harvard’s in Lake Grove

Katarina Delgado • November 29, 2015
Shake Shack and Chipotle will replace the John Harvard’s Brewery and Alehouse location in Lake Grove.
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The kNOw: I demand another spring break

The kNOw: I demand another spring break

Niveditha Obla • March 24, 2015
Ah, spring break. The highlight of the semester; a week filled with endless days, maybe a trip to warm places with my closest friends.
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27 things to be thankful for this holiday season

Niveditha Obla • November 25, 2014
Every year around Thanksgiving, we find ourselves wondering what we really are thankful for. Here are some things you may not have thought of that you really should be thankful for.
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Rumors persevere in university atmosphere

Simran Gupta • April 3, 2014
If I am not a gullible fool, and you are not a gullible fool, then why don’t rumors die out as quickly as they should? Stony Brook University is a hub of conversation where the line between “rumors” and “news” is so blurred that people will seem to believe anything upon hearsay. Perhaps, one of the most pressing rumors I have heard so far are the ones revolving around who will perform at this year’s Brookfest.
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