UCONN celebrates after winning the 2023 March Madness championship game. Courtesy | CNN More than 70 students are competing in Campus Rec’s March Madness bracket challenge as the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament kicks off this afternoon. Competitors will try to predict the winner of each March Madness game for the challenge,...
Overrated: Roskopp: Marquette never seems to be able to follow up a good regular season with a run in the tournament, and there is no reason to believe that will change this year. Coming in as a No. 2 seed again this year, it would not be a shock to see the Golden Eagles bow...
In this Quick Hits, Lecturer in Theater Tory Matsos talks Bruce Springsteen, Judy Dench, and Shakespeare. What is your favorite play? I don’t know if I have one. The best answer is probably whichever play I am working on at the moment. If you were to teach something other than theater, what would it be? ...
Eleven teams of students battled in the Student Activities Board’s Charger Chopped last Saturday, with team “Lank” taking first place. Contestants had 50 minutes to create a dish containing the mystery ingredients of strawberries, coconut milk, and chili-garlic sauce. Director of Student Activities Maddie Clark, Assistant Professor of History Anna Vincenzi, and senior Vinny Hill...
Song: “El Meu Avi” (1991) by Los Manolos Several professors actually told me not to answer this question because I have such poor taste in music. Ignoring them, I’ll choose Los Manolos’ rendition of “El Meu Avi.” It is a traditional Catalan sea shanty about a grandfather leaving his small town to fight in the...