By SABINE GLOCKER Halloween is the time of year when ghouls and ghosts come out to play and people don costumes in search of sweet treats. This is also the perfect time of year to attend haunted houses and watch the scariest movies. There are horror movies aplenty and with so many to choose from, it can sometimes be hard to decide which to watch. Though the holiday is past, here are a couple of ideas to keep the Halloween season frightful and fun. Childhood       Favorites Number...

By SABINE GLOCKER   At age 14, Leon Ichaso was sent to an airport in Cuba where his father told him, “Look at me well, because you will never see me again. I believe in this revolution and this is where I am staying.” After leaving Cuba and Fidel Castro, he said he had two options: “to become a 14-year-old alcoholic” or to create healthier coping methods. This is what film became to him—a coping method and an escape. In his talk on Oct. 10, he discussed filming a movie...

By SABINE GLOCKER   The Oct. 11 Symphony Orchestra concert entitled “Romantic Smorgasbord” is a perfect example of the term smorgasbord. According to dictionary.com, the word means “an extensive array or variety.” Huw Edwards will conduct the group, who will play four pieces. Opening the evening of musical talent will be Samuel Barber’s “First Essay for Orchestra.” Finished in 1938 by the American composer, the piece “starts off slowly and quietly and then it gradually crescendos into a more dramatic brass heavy section,” Jenna Tatiyatrairong, a sophomore clarinet performance major,...

Every year nearly 38 thousand people die by suicide (AFSP). That’s about 105 people every day that will be losing their lives (AFSP). Among people between ages 15 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death (AFSP). According to a study performed by Yale University, bulling victims are two to nine times more likely to consider suicide; a study in Britain showed that half the suicides in young people are caused by bullying; and 160,000 people stay home from school every day to avoid being bullied in school...

27,790,000 animals are killed for fur world-wide every year (animalliberationfront.com). That’s 76,137 animals per day. It takes thirty to forty rabbits to make one fur coat, thirty to two hundred chinchillas, or twenty five to forty five lambs (animalliberationfront.com). Why should we kill so many innocent animals when we can recreate the fur using our own man-made materials? Animals have rights too. Look at it this way: genocide. Killing so many animals for one reason is essentially the Holocaust all over again, only it never ends. We are killing animals...

In light of recreational marijuana use being legalized in Washington, I thought now would be a good time to discuss the drinking age. Personally, I’m not a fan of drinking. I don’t even like rum balls, and you can barely taste the alcohol in them. But the idea of raising the drinking age or lowering it has been one that I’ve pondered time and time again. I found on procon.org that the majority of countries have a minimum drinking age between 16 and 19 and that the United States is...

Don’t get me wrong, there are some great people in this generation of youth. There are people who will become great leaders and philanthropists in years to come. But the key word there is “some.” There are people within this generation that – in my opinion – are setting a bad example for the next generation and the younger members of the current generation. I spend a lot of time pondering why so many people behave the way they do, despite the fact that they could be ruining other people’s...

In a matter of a few weeks, we’ll have a new president or a president entering his second term. I’ll be the first to admit that my knowledge of the Mormon religion is limited, but I’ll also be the first to admit that my religious tolerance is high. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against people of the Mormon religion. But as a woman, I do worry that having a Mormon in office will affect my rights and change my life for the worse. Women in Mormonism are...

California recently became the first state in the union to ban what is commonly known as “gay therapy” for minors. In an article on NBCnews.com discussing the new ban, Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights said, “Governor Brown has sent a powerful message of affirmation and support to LGBT youth and their families. This law will ensure that state-licensed therapists can no longer abuse their power to harm LGBT youth and propagate the dangerous and deadly lie that sexual orientation is an illness or disorder...