Runaround, an all-senior campus band, secured its first win of the annual campus-wide Battle of the Bands competition hosted by the men’s music fraternity Theta Epsilon at Elks Lodge Oct. 17. “The concept for Battle is to get a bunch of bands together to play live music, compete, and have fun,” said Daniel Doyle, the...
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Professors’ Picks
Dr. Murphy attends a Charger football game with his daughter Bronwyn. Courtesy | David Murphy BOOK: Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” books I turned to these while I was in graduate school for some light reading to complement the journals and textbooks I was reading most of the time. They are fun stories, and I enjoy them...
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Hollywood has ruined Watson, not Hermione
Hollywood gives a voice to the least qualified. Like many people, actors and actresses in the film industry have opinions about everything, but for those in Hollywood, their beliefs can be detached from reality. Emma Watson, 35, is famous for her role as Hermione Granger in the film franchise “Harry Potter,” based on the books...
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Scrapbooking: memories on paper, not online
Pinterest girls will know: scrapbooking, junk journaling, bullet journaling, and any form of physical crafty media are making a comeback as popular forms of creative expression. In an effort to keep memories from becoming just a photo lost in an Instagram feed, many people, specifically young women, have returned to the time-consuming craft that scrapbooking...
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The D4vd controversy: can we separate the art from the artist?
I’ve listened to his music before — you can probably still find it in a few of my old playlists. But his song “Romantic Homicide” has taken on a whole new meaning after his 15-year-old alleged ex-girlfriend was found dead Sept. 8 in the front trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to him. According to...