Culture
study abroad
Senior Patak’s study abroad film selected as festival finalist
Armed with an affinity for video editing and a DSLR camera “indefinitely” stolen from his family and strapped to his backpack, senior Erik Patak created a 10-minute video that is now one of three finalists contending for a $1,500 cash prize in the 2018 IES Study Abroad Festival. The video is named “Happiness Only Real […]
frat reviews
Halloweekend, reviewed
I love Halloween because I love pain and watching Disney's "Hocus Pocus." I also like ghosts and being ghosted, mostly by people named "Trevor" or "Alan." That's why I spent this Halloweekend in my favorite place, deep in the bowels of shame and regret, the fraternity quad. On Friday, Camilla, Manasvi, Nia, and I went […]
Hirst Lounge
Water yo-yo and rubber-band guns at JSA’s Omatsuri
Japanese Students’ Association held their annual Omatsuri event, reminiscent of a Japanese summer festival of the same name, in Hirst Lounge. Omatsuri, which translates in English to “festival,” is marked by stands in the streets with games and activities like Shateki, a rubber-band gun target game, and water yo-yo, where participants use string and a […]
travel
Not Vanilla: Traveling informed
Historically we’ve been fascinated by travel. You can see it in Western idealism of exploration — explorers risking their lives to seek new lands, to chart and record all the wonders they saw. Now, we know that in reality all the places that were, according to Western history, “discovered,” have long been inhabited by each […]
Allen Ginsburg
What we can learn from Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
As members of a liberal industrialized society, we claim to try to make everything inclusive. Instead, we find labels for those who do not fit in. The segmentation of our “inclusive” society, determined by the 51 percent, has been a labored topic for those who poet Allen Ginsberg called “the great minds” in his 1956 […]
Morey Hall
Screenwriter and TV Composer talk making movies in Morey
“It begins with a script, and it ends with putting the music to it.” This was how screenwriter John Richards described his and film and TV composer Mark Water’s roles as bookends for the filmmaking process The pair discussed filmmaking and the complexity of making art in a well-attended conversation in Morey Hall. Watters isa […]
FASA
With Halo-Halloween, FASA celebrates with a Filipino dessert
The Filipino American Students’ Association (FASA) welcomed Halloween a few days early with their annual Halo-Halloween event. The Douglass Community Kitchen buzzed with students on Saturday afternoon, all eager to create their own variations of the Filipino Halo-Halo dessert. “Halo-Halo is a popular Filipino dessert that I think perfectly captures our culture,” said FASA Internal […]
Black Panther
Should Wakanda share its Vibranium? Just ask UR Debate Union
Ethics, racism, colonialism, and culture shock were all discussed by UR Debate Union through the scope of the hit Marvel film “Black Panther” during the union’s public debate for the semester. The debate, held Saturday, Oct. 20, focused on whether Wakanda, the fictional nation from the film, should share its vibranium — the fictional metal […]
A Cappella
A cappella groups fundraise for clean water with Engineers Without Borders
UR Engineers Without Borders put on their fifth-annual benefit concert this past Saturday, Oct. 20, featuring performances by UR a cappella groups, to raise funds for its fifth annual trip to the Dominican Republic. The club will use the funds to return to Don Juan in January, where the members work to implement water filtration. […]
Magic
Rubik’s Cube magician gives interactive performance in May Room
Magician Steven Brundage appeared before a small group of UR students, orchestrating an interactive performance by inviting students on stage and engaging directly with the audience’s unconventionally critical behavior. Brundage showcased his most famous tricks involving Rubik’s Cubes and playing cards. The show, which took place in the May Room on Thursday, Oct.18, began with […]