TikTok, the app taking popular culture by storm, is the fastest growing social media platform with around 800 million active users. Despite being a mere five years old, the president of the free world has referenced the app on more than one occasion. How did TikTok become so popular? TikTok is addictive. And young people...
GameStop Corp. (GME) made headlines last week after a wild week in the stock market. Shares rose 1,625% in the month of January to $325 per share. That parabolic rise intensified last week and hurt hedge funds like Melvin Capital, who had a large short position on GME. Melvin lost 53% in January on their...
Last Friday night, Jan. 29, the music department pulled out all the stops during a faculty recital in Christ Chapel, featuring trumpet professor Chris McCourry and guest artist and organist Judy Kabodian. McCourry and Kabodian’s performance presented a unique mixture of organ and trumpet with a program featuring mostly baroque music from composers such as...
For senior theatre majors Ariannah Gaiser and Sarah Nolting, procrastination could not be the answer to their senior capstone projects. These projects were two years in the making, and though they were cancelled last Spring due to COVID, the shows will be available to all audiences this weekend, Feb. 4-6. Nolting’s “Death and Renewal” will...
Last weekend, all radio files from the fall semester of 2020 had been mysteriously deleted, but with the quick action of radio general manager Scot Bertram, they have now been retrieved. When sophomore Josh Barker checked his email on Jan. 24, he found an email from Bertram, informing all radio students that their hard work...