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Virgo 8/23-9/22 Clear your mind of any worries and go out and have fun this weekend. Go and hang out with your friends or even throw a party.

Save worrying about your classes for 10 minutes before your first class Monday morning.

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Libra 9/23-10/22

Aquarius 1/20-2/18

These classes are not going to pass themselves. You should really be studying more often. The universe suggests getting ready for any big tests coming up soon.

There’s nothing wrong with just kicking back and relaxing this week.

College life can get stressful. Just don’t kick over in your chair.

Scorpio 10/23-11/21

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This is your week to have fun and mess with others, especially those Capricorns.

Have a test coming up? Don’t stress out about it. The universe has decided you will fail anyway, so why stress?

Sucks to suck.

Sagittarius 11/22-12/21

Aries 3/21-4/19

Go out and meet new people, but if I were you, I would stay away from Scorpios unless you want to be pranked.

We are accepting all forms of art and creativity to be featured inside the publication or on the cover.

Capricorn 12/22-1/19 Look back on the good things that have happened over the past few weeks, because this week is going to suck. Scorpios are out to get you. Sorry, not sorry.

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Pisces 2/19-3/20

Your clan isn’t doing so hot in the clan war. You’ve been saving up that elixir for some upgrades, but it might be time to unleash the dragons. Go get em!

Taurus 4/20-5/20 Go out and have fun this weekend, but you may want to keep your distance from any Leos for a while. Their horoscope might give them a

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sense of dominance over you bulls.

Gemini 5/21-6/21 The universe is against you this weekend. You should probably just hide in your room with the door locked, windows boarded up and just watch your favorite TV series.

Cancer 6/22-7/22 All the nice things you have done recently have not gone unnoticed, you will be rewarded for your good deeds.

Leo 7/23-8/22 Are you fluffing kitten me right meow, you are a lion. You do not need to waste time with horoscopes.

Go out, take life by the horns and have fun. P.S. we do not mean attacking a Taurus when we say take a bull by the horns either.

Farewell to goodbye Whether it’s your home“Keep On Keeping On” — town, your family, your Travie McCoy ft. Brendon friends or your special someone, this mix is dedicated to Urie anyone at the UniverThis song supplies some sity of Idaho who has much-needed motivation, something worth missand it’s easy to dance to. ing. A combination of Drop those Spanish notenostalgic and motivacards and quit moping. tional songs like these are a great cure for the “Ain’t It Fun” — ParaLyndsie Kiebert goodbye blues.

“Old Pine” — Ben Howard This is the ultimate song for bittersweet recollection. Don’t go crying on me, but reminisce to your heart’s content.

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College most definitely constitutes, “living in the real world.” Take Hayley Williams’ advice and “don’t go cryin’ to your mama.”

“Work Song” — Hozier

This song made the list for two reasons. For one, it’s a little gloomy, so it’s perfect for some mild homesick sadness.

It’s also perfect for studying, so stop procrastinating you homesick fool.

“L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”— Noah And The Whale Whether you forget to read the chapter before a quiz, misplace your mail key or get a D on your next paper, don’t forget that life goes on. “You’ve got heart, and you’re going your own way.”

“The Middle” — Jimmy Eat World

No song has ever cheered me up quite as effectively as this one has (and it should also give you a few junior high flashbacks). “It just takes some time … Everything will be alright.”

“Home” — Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

To end this playlist, here’s a carefree song with plenty of happy undertones. With the perfect combination of joy and nostalgia, this song is the cherry on top of this antihomesickness mix.

Lyndsie Kiebert can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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Sleepwave – ‘Broken Compass’ Former Underoath frontman takes a step in a new direction

an entirely different behemoth than Underoath, but it still shines by itself as one of the best things the rock genre has spawned in the past few years.

Oct. 2, 2013 marked the day the metFrom the first seconds of album alcore giants, Underoath, announced opener, “Paper Planes,” it’s clear that they would be splitting up.

“Broken Compass” has all of the makFamous for tracks like “Writing On ings of a great rock album. One word the Walls,” “A Boy Brushed Red Living In to describe it would be “punchy,” Black and White” and “Reinventing Your which is exemplified through Exit,” Underoath left a huge fan aggressive guitar riffs and fast base behind after playing for more drum beats. than a decade.

What’s even better is the Since their breakup a year ago, layer of atmosphere that gets former vocalist, Spencer Chamadded throughout the album berlain has been busy with a new in the form of varied keyboard Masen Matthews band, titled Sleepwave, and the effects. In terms of influence Rawr debut album, “Broken Compass” and sound, Sleepwave channels is currently streaming ahead of a a style along the lines of a new-age Sept. 16 release date. incarnation of the band Filter, with One listen proves Sleepwave is some modernized bells and whistles

thrown in.

Tracks like, “Paper Planes” and “Rock and Roll Is Dead and So Am I,” are a couple of songs that stand out as great rock songs when looking at the album as a whole. The latter features a guitar riff that opens up the track as it’s backed by an atmospheric synthetic track in good taste. The former is also great and has a ton of drive, as well as a catchy chorus.

Admittedly, the album isn’t flawless, and not every song holds up to the standards of the aforementioned tracks.

Towards the middle the album gets a bit boring, and the slower songs don’t jive too well in the context the album is presented in. “Disgusted: Disguised,” in particular stands out as one of the worst songs on the album. The whole song sounds like a post “Minutes to

Midnight” Linkin Park b-side, which is horrible. Luckily, things pick back up on songs like “Through the Looking Glass,” which has another huge chorus, and an industrial beat to back.

If you come into this album expecting it to sound like Underoath, prepare to be disappointed. Sleepwave is a stripped-down venture for sure, and the ultra-layered, grungy and dissonant riffs that characterized Underoath aren’t present here.

Once you get past that, you’ll find something that shines all in itself.

“Broken Compass” doesn’t stack up to what Underoath was, but it proves to be a solid album in its own light, and Chamberlain’s foray into rock is by no means a step in the wrong direction.

Masen Matthews can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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Choose your ‘Destiny’ smashed into one.

In the world of gaming, The setup is as follows: 500 “Destiny” is the like the second years in the future, mankind coming of Christ. A fitting has explored the far reaches of metaphor, seeing as developer the galaxy, and colonized several Bungie Inc.’s previous first perdifferent planets. But, “The Colson shooter franchise starter lapse” has put humanity on was “Halo: Combat the brink of extinction. With Evolved,” back in 2001. the help of a mysterious orb There are big shoes called the “Traveller,” a race to fill, and there’s a lot of powerful Guardians must at stake. The game’s defend the last human city rumored budget was Bradley and eliminate those aliens around $500 million.

Burgess Rawr who want to extinguish Does “Destiny” live up humanity. to every gamer’s wild“Destiny” isn’t just a typiest dreams? In short, yes. cal shooter, it’s game of choice.

What’s notable about “DesSimilar to a massively multitiny,” is the fact that, unlike player online role-playing game most video games, nothing is (MMORPG), the decisions you static. Bungie Inc. has created make affect the rest of the game. a universe that will enthrall There are three different gamers for years to come, and that’s not mentioning the three classes to choose from when you build your Guardian: Warsequels on the way. There are different factions of characters, lock, with the ability to create a nova bomb that will destroy classes to play as and even anything in its path, Titan, a varying host of villains. It with a powerful fist of havoc feels like 10 different games

attack and Hunter, whose golden gun will incinerate foes in a single shot.

On top of that, there are three different races your character can become: Human, Awoken and Exo. With each possibility, the playing field is different. Fortunately, the game can store three different profiles, so gamers can explore the options.

Gameplay is mixed between the average shooter and the average MMORPG. You still kill enemies with a varying host of weapons, but there are public events which occur mid-game where you must team up with other players to succeed. In addition, as the game progresses you earn more abilities, weapons and armor add-ons, much like “World of Warcraft.”

Combining the two is a novel idea, and it makes the game dynamic and interesting, even after repeat sessions.

$500 million video game is worth the wait

There’s also the multiplayer function, which the player needs to unlock after some heavy sessions of story-based missions. There’s Control, a capture-zones kill-enemies mode, Clash, a straight up kill or be killed game, Rumble, same as Clash, only without teams, Skirmish, which allows player to resurrect their fallen comrades and Salvage, which gives players objectives to complete. Like the game itself, multiplayer earns points for

your character, so it’s a win-win.

The game looks gorgeous, and you can tell the Bungie Inc. team had a good time designing these worlds. There’s so much to explore with this game, Bungie Inc. said you might never finish it. You’ll keep coming back, find new things and you’ll be enthralled by the creativity. If this isn’t the next “Halo,” nothing is.

Bradley Burgess can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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Livin’ it up in San Seb It’s hard to explain the buildup of excitement when arriving in San Sebastián, because you have to be able to see the view out of your bus window.

Heading out of Madrid, the scenery is actually quite similar to that of the Treasure Valley, and its surroundings — lots of sagebrush and patches of green surrounded by mountains. But Emily there is a point Vaartstra Rawr where, in the blink of an eye, you are traveling through lush green mountains (literally, we drove inside a mountain) and you are staring in awe at the beauty all around you.

And then, off in the distance, between mountain peaks, there is an odd change of color in the lower half of the horizon. That’s pretty much when you start freaking out — you’ve made it to the ocean, and San Sebastián (S.S.) is just a few kilometers away.

Now, I was told by so many people — locals, friends who have been abroad, past professors who have visited — that San Sebastián is the most beautiful city in Spain. Now that I’m here, I think it has to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The city is small, with about 200,000 people and a one-hour walk from one end to the other, but the architecture, the people, the layout and the beaches all come together to make this an unbelievable place to live.

S.S. is in el País Vasco (Basque Country) of Spain, and when you are reading that you have arrived in S.S. it actually says Donostia-San Sebastián.

Donostia is the Basque name for S.S., and much like how French is paired with English on everything in Canada, Basque is paired with Spanish on everything here.

A fun little fact I learned

A view of San Sebastian, Emily Vaartstra’s hometown for the upcoming semester abroad. about the Basque language — it is one of three languages that nobody has any idea which language it was derived from.

About one-third of the population in S.S. speak Basque, and everyone is required to study it in school.

The first thing I did after dropping my things off at the hotel was head to the beach and squish my toes between the silky soft sand. When my feet hit the mildly cool waters, I thought I would never leave.

After orientation the next morning, I walked back to the hotel to pick up my bags and grabbed my first taxi ever to

bring me to my host family.

When I met my host mom, I swear, I completely forgot how to speak Spanish (I mean I couldn’t even remember how to say the word test ... examen). Then I met my host sister, and you won’t believe it, but she is also studying Journalism at the university in Bilbao.

So while my first full day in S.S. was a lot to take in, I made a full recovery the next day, and as Wednesday rolled around and classes started, I was feeling pretty enthusiastic about the upcoming semester.

My first class at Universidad

del País Vasco just happened to be at 9 a.m. and I was the only student to show up (all my classes are USAC specific so it is pretty normal to have between 3-10 students in a class), but I had a blast meeting my first professor, as he told me that he actually spent a semester in Boise teaching Spanish. We talked about Idaho for 20 minutes (in Spanish obviously) and the prominence of the Basque culture in Boise.

I have now spent almost three full weeks in S.S., and I couldn’t be happier. School is challenging and takes up

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most of my day, but I also have Fridays off, which makes up for having class until 5:30 p.m. every day. I’ve been eating delicious food, such as mussels and gelato, and I get to walk along the beach to school. I’ve even done some traveling already to Southern France and will head to Bilbao this weekend to visit another University of Idaho student who is studying there.

So far, studying abroad has greatly exceeded my expectations, and I can only imagine the adventures that are to come.

Emily Vaartstra can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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25 years of positive Vandalism Vandals wield paintbrushes for Paint the Palouse’s 25th anniversary and create relationships, according to returning volunteer Michelle Aoi. “I was a Resident Assistant Every fall semester brings the for my first two years as a volopportunity to pick up a paintunteer, and I saw a lot of my brush and beautify Moscow. residents make friends by goFree T-shirts are collected, shoes ing out and getting involved,” are spattered in various shades Aoi said. and the art of the paint roller is Aoi said she is proud to be a mastered in the name of Paint part of the 25th anniversary of the Palouse.

Paint the Palouse.

This year, those T-shirts “To see such are proudly adorned a great program with the words, going strong “25th Anniversary.” after 25 years is a The University of testament to the Idaho Residence Hall enthusiasm behind Association started it,” she said.

Paint the Palouse in That enthusiasm 1989 as a way to help has endured, and students give back according to freshto the community by man volunteer painting the homes of Madison Seymour, those who are unable it is what made to themselves. her most want to When asked why I ma get involved. she volunteered to “The University wake up early on a Michelle Aoi of Idaho creates weekend to paint so many oppora stranger’s home, tunities to be active in the freshman Sarah Erdman didn’t Moscow community, and they hesitate to answer. encourage you to do so,” Sey“Paint the Palouse is a good mour said. “Paint the Palouse opportunity to restore the comproves that there is more to munity. I signed up because campus life than just athletic I’m really interested in getting events.” involved,” Erdman said.

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To see such a great program going strong after 25 years is a testament to the enthusiasm behind it­.”

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Students all chip in their Vandal spirit to paint the Palouse at the Almon House on Saturday, Sept. 13.

Flummox To bewilder, confound or confuse

Example: The art history professor left his intro class completely flummoxed when discussing Impressionism.

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Not your usual opera Aly Soto rawr

Photos from Binghamton Confucius Institute | Courtesy

Peking Opera Yiran Zhu

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Peking Opera is one of the Chinese traditional operas, found in Beijing, with 150 years of history. It is based on the “Hui opera” and “Han opera” and absorbed the advantage and features of the Kunqu opera and Shaanxi opera, then developed and formed gradually over time.

Beijing Opera, also known as "pihuang" (yellow skin) because it is from "xipi" and "erhuang" composed of two basic tones.

Peking Opera is China's cultural legacy, the actors interpret it vividly, Hiromi momentum, making it representative of modern Chinese drama.

Beijing Opera is a comprehensive performing art. Using namely singing, talking, expressive gestures and fighting to represent those thoughts and feelings such as joy, anger, dirge, surprise, fear and sadness.

The opera can be divided into four roles: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou.

Sheng, the male lead, plays the role of an ordinary man.

Dan, the female lead, plays the role of an ordinary woman.

Jing, the painted face, stands for men with distinctly different looks and characters, and Chou, the clown, plays the role of a humorous or an evil man.

People have faithfulness points, beauty and ugliness points and good and evil points, each vivid and lifelike.

The main theme of the opera is usually from history of political and military struggle, but the story is mostly from fiction. There are a lot of fans around the country that love to indulge in a touching story.

Peking Opera is a synthesis of art. It shows the audience the excellence of Chinese art. In recent years, Beijing opera has attempted numerous reforms in response to sagging audience numbers. These reforms, which include improving performance quality, adapting new performance elements and performing new and original plays, have been met with mixed success.

Some Western works have been adopted as new plays, but a lack of funding and an adverse political climate have left Beijing Opera's fate uncertain as the form enters the 21st century.

Yiran Zhu can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

A rarely seen form of Chinese entertainment is making an appearance at the University of Idaho, thanks to the efforts of UI’s Confucius Institute.

Providing a mash-up of different genres and popular Chinese culture, the Binghamton Chinese Opera hopes to attract many to its one-night performance.

Chinese opera is considered a national treasure of China, with a long history going back to the Tang Dynasty. While mostly a form of entertainment for the cultured and educated, it is considered rare to grow up in China without any exposure to it.

“The opera presents the audience with an encyclopedia of Chinese culture,” said Hexian Xue, from the UI Confucius Institute.

Bringing the opera here, she and Matthew Wappett, also from the UI Confucius Institute, hope it will help them fulfill one of institute’s goals: to further community understanding of Chinese culture.

A Chinese opera performance consists of a combination of Chinese focused music, both instrumental and vocal, dancing, acting, acrobatics, martial arts, makeup and costumes. The audience can observe a different way of dramatic story telling that shares similarities in both look and technique with other forms of traditional Asian entertainment.

“Chinese opera, style wise, is a little bit different then what Americans are used to,” Wappett said.

Two telling differences between American and Chinese style of opera are the number of musicians in a performance — which is significantly smaller — and the style of makeup, which helps tell the audience what kind of character the actor is playing.

“One of the most visible aspects of Chinese opera that people associate with it is the makeup. There are certain markings, symbols and patterns that are on a face that distinguish a character in that particular opera,” Wappett said.

Performers train long and hard, having to master several forms of performing arts. One popular saying about Chinese Opera is: “One minute on stage takes 10 years of practice.”

William Chunnuan Liu, a guest Bei-

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jing opera performer at Binghamton University, agrees with this statement.

“People start training at 6 to 8 years old,” Liu said. “You have to go to a special school.”

Liu believes performances of Chinese opera in the U.S. will benefit those who are trying to learn more about the country it originated from.

“It is a cool way to know Chinese people and Chinese culture,” Liu said.

The other reason the UI Confucius Institute is bringing the Binghamton

Opera troupe here is to celebrate a special achievement.

“The performance of the Binghamton group coincides with the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Confucius Institute world-wide,” Wappett said.

With more than 300 institutes established since the program’s founding, students and communities all over the world have gained more access to the culture, language and interaction with China.

The Binghamton Chinese Opera will perform three excerpts from the following: “Farewell My Concubine,” a tragedy, “The Crossroads Inn,” an instance of mistaken identity and “Uproar in Heaven,” a tale of a dispute. The performance will be 7 p.m.

Sept. 20 at the Administration Building. Tickets are $8 and are sold first come first served at the Confucius Institute office.

Aly Soto can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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Things I don’t do because of movies Use tanning beds

on the off chance you get pinned to The “Final Desrock wall for “127 tination” franchise Hours,” you could has come up with end up amputating some pretty creative your own arm with and silly ways to kill a Swiss army knife. people with everyJust saying. day objects. But none of them top Take baths the infamous tanHygiene is imporning bed scene tant. You have from the third to get clean film. Two hot somehow. For chicks strip many, a bath down and try is a great and to work on relaxing way to their bikini Bradley wash off. And Burgess lines and end to that, I presRawr up getting ent to you the baked and not scene from “Slither”, in a fun way. From where slugs crawled now on, my tans are into the tub with a getting sprayed on. hot girl. Feel free to a shower. I Eat chocolate pie reserve know I did.

Chocolate pie in itself seems pretty Get drunk in harmless, right?

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It’s a small world after all ‘Miniatures’ exhibition closing at end of month Christopher Dempsey rawr

The education coordinator for the Prichard Art Gallery, Lauren McCleary said she was proud that the gallery’s current exhibit, “Miniatures: It’s Not All Small After All,” was a show put together by people in their group.

Assistant director of the gallery, Nara Woodland, said Director Roger Rowley invited her and McCleary to co-direct the current art exhibit.

Woodland said they had a lot of creative freedom with this exhibit, deciding on who they wanted to participate in the show, where they wanted to place the work and who they wanted to present it.

Woodland said there were other ideas they focused on before they thought of the idea to do a miniature show. When they saw Thomas Doyle’s artwork in a magazine, the idea was solidified.

They decided to have an exhibit based on artists who were working in the miniature realm.

“His (Doyle’s) work was so unique and so different from anything else that we’ve ever shown here, so it just captured our attention,” Woodland said.

McCleary said the next exhibit, the “Bauhaus Twenty-21,” is a selection of artwork another photographer put together, and they will be renting from. There are a lot more rules with this type of exhibit. They

have to paint the gallery a certain color and will be given a map of where to put the artwork.

Woodland said the current type of exhibit presents its own challenges because they are sorting many images and going through gallery mailers. They receive post cards from different galleries, telling them what artist’s work is on display.

The big task is coordinating different artists’ work together. Then, they contact the artists to tell them what they like and find out what is available.

They pick the works they want to display from this information while staying within their budget, Woodland said.

According to their upcoming schedule of exhibits, “Bauhaus twenty-21” begins Oct. 10.

McCleary said Bauhaus was an art movement in Germany, and ended around 1933.

She said the exhibit is a selection of photographs from the Bauhaus time period, focusing on old architecture and current architecture inspired by the period.

The exhibit comes with text panels and will provide information about the movement. The artist who put the show together is coming to Moscow to do workshops at the gallery and give a lecture at the University of Idaho.

The Bauhaus movement focuses on uniting craft and concept, and becoming a master craftsman by design skills, including architecture, visual art, topography and topographic design.

Christopher Dempsey can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

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Thomas Doyle is one of many artists currently being showed in the Prichard Art Galleries Miniatures: It’s Not All Small After All.” You can see the piece titled “Brace” in the gallery now through Sept. 28.

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Friday Fiction

Argonauter misadventures

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The office of The Argonaut is a mysterious and terrifying place to many outsiders, especially when they find out that everything is not as it seems.

The Macs that decorate desks are really imps summoned from the Netherworld, and yes, we do have resident witch.

I would like to introduce you to the people behind the scenes. The real people.

Kaitlyn Krasselt Our fearless leader, the editor-in-chief, is not all she appears. She summons demons to help her do all the jobs she has to do at once.

Krasselt is also responsible for turning our computers into imps … Or imps into our computers. I’m not sure how that one works yet.

Ryan “Rupert” Tarinelli Rupert is a puppet master.

He carries around Tom Brone and makes him sing all kinds of weird things. Then, he will get all voodoo on us and pull out some dark creepy jazz that sounds like he is somehow cursing us all to be frogs.

I’m also curious about him though, because he acts like a puppet sometimes. Is he controlling Tom or is someone controlling him?

I’m afraid if I ask, some dark curse will be cast on me.

Stephan Wiebe The sports editor … There

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really isn’t much to say about Stephan. He writes, he’s a mime and he used to wrestle grizzly bears in Alaska. What he does say doesn’t come from his mouth, not since he took that theater class and it went horribly awry.

He never talks much about his past, but there are whispers in these hallowed halls. He was a world champion bear wrestler. He hasn’t confirmed or denied, but then again, he’s been trapped in an invisible box for a while.

Danielle Wiley I heard that our radio editor, Danielle, used to be a rock goddess known as “Danny Phantom.” She won’t tell me if it’s true or not, and honestly, whenever I ask she just screams “yeaaahhhhh yeah yeah yeah yeahhhhhhhh!” So … yes? I guess she was a rock star in her early years, or in some past life, because I think she’s Buddhist too. Not sure how that combo works, but this is Danielle. She’s kind of wacky, maybe too much fun on her almost famous tours.

Aleya Ericson She’s a witch. Plain and simple, no questions asked.

Definitely a witch.

Every night she sits and mutters into her computer screen. The only problem is, whatever she is muttering isn’t English. Or anything that even resembles English. She just sits there and mutters incantations, probably summoning her

familiar to conduct lightning quick Google searches.

Word around the office is she turned other prospective opinion editors into newts. No one has heard from them since.

Amber Emery Little known fact about the news editor: she is gangster. A high class gangster just below the mafia, but a gangster none the less.

She has an underground, white-collar criminal organization. Ever seen “White-Collar?”

Yeah, a whole passel of art thieves, forgers and con men.

Amber is the group’s leader.

She tries to deny any association with the group, but she always walks around campus dressed nicely. Professionally.

She is just aiming to rip somebody off.

Andrew Jenson Anyone who has seen Andrew knows that he has a cowboy hat, but what people don’t see are his moon boots.

That’s right, Andrew is a space cowboy. He used to fly under Malcolm Reynolds before the accident happened with his ship, “Firefly.” His ship’s pilot was killed in action, and the crew still hasn’t got over it.

I think Andrew just worked in the engine room though. He disappears sometimes, and I wonder if he is going to crew meet ups.

Daphne Jackson We have a witch, but we also have a wizard. Daphne

is definitely a wizard, Harry, but not that kind of wizard.

She does have some magical powers, but she only uses them to make tea appear out of nowhere or to make The Argonaut website look fantastic. She manages everything about our webpage, and I can only explain how she does it by using some kind of supernatural ability.

Katelyn Hilsenbeck Katelyn is a dancer, and she does not deny it. Ask her next time you see her, and she will fess up. She might not tell you that she was a Russian ballet dancer though. She has performed “The Nutcracker,” in 14 different countries and has been the swan princess at least five times.

She might not admit to these little details, she seems rather modest after all. Or quiet. Maybe she played a mouse in “The Nutcracker.”

Korbin McDonald I’m not sure what happened to Korbin over the years, but he seems to have lost interest in a lot of things. He is always monotone, and never seems too terribly entertained, even when he is announcing Mariners or Seahawks games. There is just no enthusiasm.

I heard he used to be all fun and games, but then a dementor took away his joy. I think people are just spreading weird lies though.

Erin Bamer Rumor has it Erin is a gypsy,

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specifically a fortune teller. She is always saying weird things only gypsies would understand.

Then she will go silent, staring off into the “Great Beyond,” before having a revelation.

The only problem is, she never says what she sees. Not in any clear language. She says things along the lines of “you will get stories today” or “I will get you a cookie.” Then, when something happens that she merely alludes to, she claims to have told us it was going to happen.

I think she’s a hack. Still a gypsy, but a hack.

Hannah Lynch This one is a puzzle. At first, I thought she was just a hip artist. Then, I got to thinking about it, and started hearing things around town, of a masked crusader. When described, she sounds a lot like Hannah, but just with a mask and superpowers. Apparently, she is going by the name, “Indie Zine,” when out capturing criminals and saving all of Moscow. I hadn’t heard what her superpower is, but I will find out soon.

Me- Claire Whitley I’m the newbie, so I’m just as confused as everyone else when I look at these editors.

During the day, when anyone can walk into the office, they’re completely normal, but as soon as production night comes around, they turn into something crazy.

But it’s okay. I like crazy.

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For every person on earth, 62 Lego pieces have been made.

There are 170 sextillion different move combinations in the first 10 turns of chess.

Taco Bell sold 100 million Doritos Locos Tacos within 10 weeks. It took McDonalds 18 years to sell that many hamburgers.

It is possible to grow a plant that grows both tomatoes above ground and potatoes below ground. This is made

possible by grafting a tomato plant stem and a potato plant stalk.

Brass doorknobs disinfect themselves within eight hours of contamination.

Tap water in Canada is held to higher standards than bottled water.

Sitting straight up in your chair is bad for your back.

Sitting at a 135-degree angle is the best way to sit.

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The Colossally Amazing Adventures of Norbert (and Friends) by Samantha Brownell Somewhere in the TLC

It’s almost 20 after. We better get out of the way.

Out of the way of what?

Seriously?

You don’t remember?

...And now you’re being carried away by the flood of students so I have to rescue you. Again...

SAMMY! HELP!!!!!

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