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Slam what?! A review of Maggot Colonys new album you didnt know you needed until now

Slam what?! A review of Maggot Colony’s new album you didn’t know you needed until now

Max Jonas Knaver, Writer March 5, 2015

This week's album can be streamed below via either Spotify or YouTube. Largely due to reasons pertaining to musical taste, these reviews have a tendency to mention by name a particular musical niche...

Sarpanitum: guitarist/bassist Tom Hyde, guitarist/keyboardist and vocalist Tom Innocenti, and studio drummer Leon Macey

Sarpanitum’s Blessed Be My Brothers: Blessed be the songwriting

Max Jonas Knaver, Writer February 25, 2015

(Scroll to the bottom of the article to stream the album as a YouTube playlist. Drawing thematic inspiration from a period in history or a particular culture’s mythology can turn into a double-edged...

American Sniper, 50 Shades of Grey, and the responsibility of storytellers

American Sniper, 50 Shades of Grey, and the responsibility of storytellers

Isabel Dufford, Editor-in-Chief February 24, 2015

“It’s just a movie.” This past Sunday, February 22, 36.6 million people tuned in to the 87th annual Academy Awards to look back at this year’s biggest films and most memorable moments in cinema. If...

Ingested members, Jay Evans, Brad Fuller, Lyn Jeffs, Sam yates, Sean Hines

Ingested- The Architect of Extinction Album Review

Max Jonas Knaver, writer February 11, 2015

Scroll to the bottom of the article to stream the full album via YouTube For a lot of people, Ingested represents a tragedy. With their first album hailed even today as an excellent work of pure brutal...

Stephen Kings new novel raises the bar again

Stephen King’s new novel raises the bar again

Tyler Jungbauer, Reporter February 4, 2015

"In one way, at least, our lives really are like movies." The opening line of Stephen King’s newest novel released this November, Revival, hardly captivates the terror and stun that lay within the...

The concept of a Sadie Hawkins day was introduced by cartoonist Al Capp in 1937 in his popular comic strip Lil Abner. The day was named after a supporting character and soon became an annual tradition in the plot of the comic, and was co-opted by colleges and high schools across the country.

The case against Sadie Hawkins

Wyatt Vanderheyden, Contributor January 14, 2015

To many students, the idea of a Sadie Hawkins dance (a type of dance where the girl asks the boy to go) may seem harmless, but to some this type of dance makes them feel uncomfortable. While not all students...

A giraffe stares Ted Weiss (10) down at the Savannah Africa.

South Africa: Just What I Did(n’t) Expect.

Ted Weiss, Reporter January 9, 2015

I've been fortunate to travel throughout my 15 years on this Earth to a variety of places, from Europe, Asia to central, South America and within the United States. During this last winter break of...

One can see in this picture that there is only one rack out of many that offers the 50% off deal advertised in the Urban Outfitters window.

Black Friday: Not worth it

Sam Weiss, Senior Reporter December 5, 2014

My very peaceful, quiet Thanksgiving evening could have been extended for several more hours. Instead, it was cut short at around 8:00 due to my desire to score some great deals during the Black Friday...

Game Review: Unturned

Chase Howard, Reporter October 30, 2014

Unturned is a new survival/horror video game released by Smartly Dressed Games on July 7, 2014 and was created using the Unity engine. The game was designed by a seventeen-year old by the name of Nelson...

Tuck (Morgan Baker, 11) and Mother Hicks (Maddie Dayhoff, 10) force Girl (Cate Montville, 10) to drink something that will allegedly cure her of the pneumonia she has contracted.

Review: Mother Hicks

Aubrey Hall, Reporter October 22, 2014

Mother Hicks by Susan Zeder is set in the town of Ware, Illinois, during the era of the Great Depression. Through the use of a chorus, the play is like a narrative novel, with its powerful imagery...

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