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This New Year, I decided to resolve to save more money. As a poor college student, it's important to have enough money for the necessities: tuition, books, granola, cable internet and Ron Paul stickers. So every year I pledge to take a closer look at how I'm using what little money my university wage earned by cleaning dust off the library books garners me, and to spend some time figuring out clever ways to save.

As I sat in my terminal at LAX waiting to go back to Oregon, I was too tense from the hell that is airport security to sit and read, so I decided to watch people going about their business in the airport. I'm sure it all depends on where you're going and why, but it's still fascinating to watch how some people (let's face it, mainly women) are dressed to the nines to travel.

It's that time of year again. It's rainy, it's cold, it's dark: it must be January. And how better to celebrate this occasion than to lie to yourself and make false resolutions that will surely fail before the end of the month. Come on, you know you're just going to shoot for the same thing next year.

Comedy at its finest, "Juno" is a modern day tale of a high school student that decides to have sex with her friend Bleeker (Michael Cera) out of a combination of boredom and curiosity. Just as all those ridiculous abstinence posters warned against, Juno becomes pregnant after just one time.

Those who were at the LaSells Stewart Center last night might never think the same way about a Xerox machine again. Ursula M. Burns, the president of Xerox Corporation, visited OSU Thursday to give the College of Business Dean's Distinguished Lecture. "Ursula started at Xerox as a student intern 28 years ago," said Ilene Kleinsorge, Dean of the College of Business.

Brass Ring Carousel exhibit, Art exhibit, Arts Center (Corvallis), Jan. 10 - Feb. 9, Free Jane Ann Lehr & Pam Serra-Wenz exhibitions, Corrine Woodman Gallery (in Corvallis Arts Center building), Jan. 10 - Feb. 3, Free "Dinner with Friends," Theatre, Albany Civic Theatre, Jan.

British songstress Kate Nash may not be an extraordinary singer or musician. Yet, there is nothing less than extraordinary about her first album "Made of Bricks" which landed on American shelves Tuesday. At merely twenty years old, Nash took her first stab at music while at home in the suburbs of London and ended up with a number one record in the UK.

You might think that every Birkenstock-wearing, chai-drinking, Country Fair-going hippy in this green little valley avoids Oregon State University like we avoid paying taxes and washing our dreadlocks. You may not even know what the Country Fair is all about.

This year my resolutions are threefold. First, I want to get back in shape. Second, I want to stop threatening to kill people in the Barometer. Finally, I want to write the next great American novel. When it comes to fitness, the important thing to remember is that it's all up to you.

Well, it is clear that even when we take a break from classes, celebrities never take a break. The Spears sisters have probably taken the cake as far as it goes for most controversy. Jamie-Lynne Spears, 16, is pregnant! Rumor has it her boyfriend, the father, recently dumped her.