Why you should watch Merchants of Doubt

For my Communications 233 class, Mass Communication in Modern Society, one of the things we were meant to learn about in the course is media literacy.  I say were because today is the day of our final exam so the course is technically over but... I'm not really here to get into semantics.  Media literacy was …

New Sun and Moon Information: Spectators?

With Finals for the semester coming up I really don't have a lot of time for myself, as I'm pretty much perpetually busy with last minute projects and studying.  However... I feel like it would be something of a disservice to not keep up with Pokémon Sun and Moon news, since I'm pretty hyped about …

So how about that Sun and Moon trailer?

Man, it's been a real busy day.  Work on the Daily Titan kept me busy after my classes between an enterprise story we had about graduation rates on campus and our breaking news coverage of a suspicious package bomb threat on campus.  Though the bomb threat turned out to be nothing, and I'm grateful for …

Representing History through Film

Somehow the historical side of my blog for my Honors World Civilizations course has almost become more of a platform for me to talk about films.  In the first two posts I did (Post 1 and 2), I talked about Chantal Akerman's documentaries in various degrees around the times that I watched them. So, I figure why not take this last …

Tales from a Holocaust Survivor’s Widow

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.  It's an internationally recognized date corresponding to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the 27th day of Nisan in the Hebrew Calendar, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Not too long ago, there was a story written in the Daily Titan previewing a talk that was given today in …