You’ve spent seemingly endless years in classrooms, from elementary, to high school, to college, sitting through boring lectures and answering mind-numbing tests. You’ve devoted your free time, skipped meals, and lost sleep for extra-curricular activities and organizations, supposed avenues for unleashing potential and leadership. You’ve devoted immeasurable time and effort, pulled off all-nighter after all-nighter,…
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The art of decorative writing
Literally translated as ‘beautiful writing,’ calligraphy is essentially defined as written letters, differentiating them from drawn or digitally designed lettering. In oriental cultures it is one of the purest and most esteemed art forms, while in Western cultures it has a definite formal basis in modern designs based on Greek, Roman, and early Christian letterforms.…
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Snaps for slams: Spoken word poetry
According to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, spoken word poetry is thoroughly defined as “…poetry that is written on a page but performed for an audience. Because it is performed, this poetry tends to demonstrate a heavy use of rhythm, improvisation, free association, rhymes, rich poetic phrases, word play, and slang. It is more aggressive…
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Resurgence of indie comics
Worn out pages of Naruto and Archie comic books sit comfortably waiting to be read for the nth time, while collections of individually sealed Marvel and DC comics are neatly displayed in the rooms of proud readers. And in this colorful world ran by kings and queens of quirky humor and sappy romance, ruled by…
The daily grind of the urban jungle life can get monotonous. With limited choices in the city, frequenting the same malls, parks, and clubs easily become a bore. Fad or not, more and more people are looking to the outdoors for a much needed breather. Whether you’re an adrenaline junkie, soul-searcher, beginner, or someone who…
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The modern day kutsero
It’s eight in the morning and you’re still on your way to your 7:30 am class. “Why does it have to be so traffic?” you ask yourself, and so do the other people in the cars beside you. The heat is insane. Thank god for the inventor of air conditioning, right? You look at your…
A University Student Government (USG) Legislative Assembly (LA) session was held last March 20 to approve LA minutes, approve a resolution on the Council of University Representatives (CURE) manual, and discuss other matters. Minutes reviewed and amended The minutes reviewed and amended by the body to begin the session were from February 3, 2015 and…
The University Student Government (USG) released the balances of its different units last March 14. Originally carried out in compliance of a Legislative Assembly (LA) resolution which called for the establishment of an Appropriations Fund System (AFS), the alleged untimely posting of the balances has received massive backlash online, calling into question both the…
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A Legislative Assembly (LA) special session was held last March 16 to discuss the pending suspension of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, the problems that have occurred thus far in this year’s University Student Government (USG) General Elections (GE), and plans for the proposed special elections. Suspension of ROTC It was clarified that…