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    • Alter Your Energy
      Alter Your Energy
    • Winter Skin Survival Guide
      Winter Skin Survival Guide
    • Rise Above Your Station
      Rise Above Your Station
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
      Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
    • GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
      GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
    • Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
      Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
  • Campus Culture
    • Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
      Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
    • Virtual Reality Showcase
      Virtual Reality Showcase
    • Greek Sing 2025 Recap
      Greek Sing 2025 Recap
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
      What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
    • 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
      2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
    • Wrong Pants Theory
      Wrong Pants Theory
  • Self-Improvement
    • Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
      Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
    • Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
      Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
    • Selective Sinners
      Selective Sinners
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • The People’s Voices
      The People’s Voices
    • NYC Marathon 2025
      NYC Marathon 2025
    • Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media
      Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media

Julia McGinty

Julia McGinty is a senior studying Digital and Print Journalism at Penn State. She loves taking photos of her friends, binging the Vampire Diaries and searching for new things to bake. In her free time you can find her making Spotify playlists, painting or consuming way too much caffeine.

Entertainment

Kim Kardashian to Star in “American Horror Story”

By Julia McGinty

Have you heard that Kim Kardashian will be starring in the next season of “American Horror Story”? Bible. Producer, mother, influencer, soon-to-be-lawyer(?) and now actress…

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Fashion

The Spectacle of Concert Fashion

By Julia McGinty

Over the past couple years, choosing an outfit for a concert has become an elaborate and vital part to the experience as a whole. Fans…

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Campus Culture

Ring by Spring

By Julia McGinty

If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? For some college students— engagement rings. There are few decisions in life as momentous…

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Fashion

The Chad Danforth Effect

By Julia McGinty

Troy Bolton’s best friend and teammate did more than just dance, sing and steal hearts throughout the High School Musical franchise. His collection of spunky…

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Campus Culture

The Campus Celebrity

By Julia McGinty

For some reason, seeing certain strangers is a noteworthy event. They’d never know it, but being seen constitutes a text to the group chat. For…

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Beauty & Health

Preventing Ingrown Hairs

By Julia McGinty

An ingrown hair is a hair that has started to grow back after being removed that curves under the surface of the skin. Ingrown hairs…

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Entertainment

Paris Hilton is mother

By Julia McGinty

Paris Hilton and her husband Carter Reum have welcomed a baby boy via surrogate. The couple have turned to IVF, in vitro fertilization, in order…

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Beauty & Health

Beware the DIY Skincare

By Julia McGinty

Being a teenager is tough. You’re awkward, your voice is changing and worst of all, breakouts are common and plenty. There was an explosion of…

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Fashion

Why Wear Jeans on the Red Carpet?

By Julia McGinty

Of all the fabrics that could be worn to an awards show or event, denim has to be the most informal. The early 2000s were…

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Entertainment

Why Does My Girlfriend Like Joe Burrow so Much?

By Julia McGinty

Joe Brrr, Joe Shiesty, Joe Cool, “America’s Boyfriend”, the star quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals is known by many different names. As fans have no…

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Beauty & Health

In Support of Lip Stains

By Julia McGinty

According to Gossip Girl’s Serena van der Woodsen, lipstick lasts longer but gloss is more fun. While this fictional It Girl of the Upper East…

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Fashion

Ashley Rous is Redefining Influencer Fashion

By Julia McGinty

It’s not unusual to change career paths. In fact, it happens all the time. However, when it comes to a platform like YouTube, leaving is…

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Campus Culture

What your favorite coffee place says about you

By Julia McGinty

If coffee could be put into an IV, trust that there would be college students getting hooked up to a bag solely for the caffeine…

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Campus Culture

VALLEY’s Penn State Predictions

By Julia McGinty

With just shy of two months left in 2022, the promise of a new year looms. With that comes a host of unanswered questions and…

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Self-Improvement

How To Gift Thoughtfully

By Julia McGinty

The holiday season is full of things to celebrate. It’s a time to spend with family and loved ones, often while sharing gifts. However, giving…

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Entertainment

How Sue C’s It

By Julia McGinty

With her tracksuit, scheming and unflinching ability to yell at teenagers, Sue Sylvester, played by Jane Lynch, remains one of the most memorable characters on…

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Campus Culture

The Best Places to Take a Call on Campus

By Julia McGinty

Oh, the telephone. A wonderful tool that has connected billions of people since the time of its conception. It’s doubtful that the inventors would have…

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Entertainment

Lindsay Lohan Saves Christmas

By Julia McGinty

Lindsay Lohan’s influence on cinema can easily rival that of Leonardo DiCaprio’s. After all, Lindsay Lohan could have done Inception, but DiCaprio could’ve never done…

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Fashion

Nipple visibility, why the stigma?

By Julia McGinty

A man’s nipple. A woman’s nipple. But what makes these nipples different? And what small feature about them divides the public’s perception? Let’s talk about…

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Beauty & Health

Celebrities, They Eat Just Like Us!

By Julia McGinty

Brad Pitt eating pizza? Will wonders never cease! In a series of amusing PR moves, celebrities have been enlisted to detail the absolute ins and…

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