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‘CAPTURE THE ENERGY’: WOMEN TAKE TO STREETS OF ROANOKE IN PROTEST The event took place on the anniversary weekend of the 2017 Women’s March.

Speakers addressed obstacles that affect women on the local and national level.

MIKE LIU

assistant news editor

On the anniversar y weekend of the first Women’s Ma rch, the Ro a n o k e c o m m u n it y gathered once again on Jan. 20, 2018, to engage with issues such as immigration and violence against women that the community and the nation are facing.

“Last year, the marches across the country were a sign that people were concer ned about t he direction things had gone nationally, and I think the turnout at those marches worldwide sent everyone a message,” said Barbara Andes, one of the organizers of the event. “The turnout in Roanoke being one of the highest per capita turnouts of any city shows that Roanoke cares, and Roanoke wants to be engaged. This year, this march will be what it is. It is its own standing event, but

we want fellow citizens in Roanoke to know that we are still engaged.”

The event took place in Elmwood Park in downtown Roanoke. The event started at 11 a.m. with a live performance by a local band.

From 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., a series of speakers addressed specific issues in the local Roanoke community. The official march lasted from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. After the march was over, there was a flash mob dance and more live entertainment.

“We are excited, and we worked really hard to make this march as inclusive as possible,” said Sara Sprague, one of the organizers of the event. “We are trying to make sure everyone who wants to be included can be included.”

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Virginia Tech alumnus, wife face charges in torture case California residents David and Louise Turpin have been charged with torture and false imprisonment of their 13 children, who range in age from 2–29.

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furniture. The address had been registered as a private school with the California Department of Education.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in a press conference before the hearing that the girl who escaped had planned the escape for two years. One of her siblings had initially escaped with her but went back to the house.

David Tur pin grew up about 40 miles west of Blacksburg in Mercer County, West Virginia.

He attended Princeton High School, graduating in 1979, and consistently made the school’s honor roll with grades of B’s or better. A copy of the school’s yea rbook from 1979, obtained by the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, listed him as an officer in the Bible Club and Chess Club and a member of the Science Club and Acapella Choir.

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SAMANTHA SMITH / COLLEGIATE TIMES Protesters walk up a street during the Roanoke Women’s March, Jan. 20, 2018.

KATELYN MEADE / COLLEGIATE TIMES The crowd listens to a speaker at the Roanoke Women’s March, Jan. 20, 2018.

David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Ann Turpin, 49, made their first court appearance in Riverside County, California, on Jan. 18. The Virginia Tech alumnus and his wife allegedly kept their 13 children captive in their Perris, California, home.

The couple faces 12 counts of torture, 12 counts of false imprisonment, seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult and six counts of child abuse of neglect. David Turpin also faces a charge of a lewd act on a child. They will be in court again Feb. 23.

The children were found in the home after one of their daughters managed to escape out of a window and call 911 using a deactivated cell phone. In the house, police found some of the children, ranging in age from 2 to 29, chained to

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University Libraries offers new streaming service free to students The service offers a collection of hundreds of titles. Here are eight essential films that you can’t stream anywhere else.

JOHN BATTISTON

assistant lifestyles editor

Movie-loving Hokies rejoice — Virginia Tech University Libraries, in collaboration with Swank Motion Pictures, has just launched an online streaming service. It’s completely free to anyone with a PID, and man, is it wonderful.

The service contains an online collection of hundreds of movies, and is described on the website as “academic film streaming to enhance your learning experience”; thus many of the featured films are scholarly in nature, including a plethora of documentaries, so if that’s your thing, more power to you. But for anyone who just digs a great popcorn-worthy flick, there’s plenty of that in store too.

Audiovisual geeks, like myself, should know that the streaming quality varies — depending on the strength of

your internet connection it tends to be more on-par with DVD, which is still decent, and some of the films aren’t presented in their original aspect ratios (they’re not letterboxed). But if you can get past those couple of hiccups, then you’re sure to have a grand time exploring the free library of classic films and hidden gems that’s now available to us.

To help you make the best of this new opportunity, here’s a list of eight fantastic films offered by VT libraries that you can’t stream anywhere else.

“Almost Famous” (2000) In the early days of his career — like, before his 18th birthday — storied music journalist Cameron Crowe spent a lot of his time on the road with the bands that would become legends of the classic rock era, turning them into cover stories for Rolling Stone. Years later, he took his experiences and created one of the best music

CORPS ALUMNUS RECEIVES SETTLEMENT James Cook reaches settlement in car crash.

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movies ever made. “Almost Famous,” told through the eyes of 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit), takes the joys and strains of growing up in one hand, raw passion for rock-and-roll in the other, and puts them together to create a heartbreaking, hysterical portrait of the lives of rock stars and their friends in the 1970s.

“Brick” (2005) Nearly a decade before Rian Johnson was tapped to direct massive movieplex fare like “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (a job which he totally nailed, if I do say so myself), he was singlehandedly raising hundreds of thousands of dollars so he could make his first feature.

Featuring a mangy, babyfaced Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead role, “Brick” picks up the structure and style of your everyday noir thriller and drops it into a contemporary high school setting.

Silky-smooth dialogue and cigarette-smoke haze

abound as Johnson delivers an intriguing story about what happens when a bunch of teenagers’ penchant for drug-fueled violence goes over the edge.

“Children of Men” (2006) Though better known for his directorial work on “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and “Gravity,” Alfonso Cuaron gave us one of the best films of the 2000s with “Children of Men.” It explores a not-too-distant future in which women are no longer able to bear children — until our reluctant hero (Clive Owen) encounters an inexplicably pregnant teenager and takes it upon himself to deliver her to government researchers so that the human race might be salvaged. Bleak yet hopeful, unflinchingly violent yet starkly beautiful (featuring gorgeous camerawork by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki), “Children of Men”

CAMILA CABELLO KILLS IT WITH DEBUT Read about her follow-up to “Havana.”

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is an inimitable cinematic experience that everyone should undergo.

“Collateral” (2004) This is the pulsepounding action-thriller you never knew you needed in your life. “Collateral,” helmed by “Heat” writer-director Michael Mann, takes place over the course of a single night and follows an idealistic cab driver (Jamie Foxx) who is thrown into the terrifying world of organized crime in Los Angeles when one of his passengers (Tom Cr uise) reveals himself to be a professional assassin and takes his chauffeur hostage, forcing him to drive him from hit to hit until the night is through.

I r r e si s t ibly exc it i ng, “Collateral” barely ever stops to take a breath, and offers a pleasant surprise for anyone who thought they’d never see Tom Cruise play the bad guy. (He kills it, by the way — no pun intended.)

“Fargo” (1996) Never will there be a filmmaker (or rather, pair of filmmakers) so enigmatic as Joel and Ethan Coen.

Over the brothers’ 30-plus years as a duo behind the camera, they’ve proven themselves masters of just about every genre and tone there is — crime, mystery, goofball comedy, family drama, you name it — and they brilliantly pull out all the stops for their masterpiece, “Fargo.” Trust me when I say that you will not regret watching a superpregnant police detective (Frances McDor mand) investigate a fake-but-real hostage situation against the backdrop of a beautifully barren American Midwest (photographed impeccably by master cinematographer Roger Deakins). If that isn’t enough to convince you, watch it just for the cast’s over-the-top Minnesotan accents.

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Astrology deserves credit as outlet for entertainment, fun Crystal balls, psychic readings, tarot cards and horoscopes are simply fun ways to guide us through life and the chaos it brings .

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Overpriced textbooks burden financially struggling students The exorbitant cost of required readings is representative of a more significant problem in higher education and in the corporate world.

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n an era characterized by corporate tyranny and impotent public policy, students must set aside hundreds of dollars strictly for textbooks when they return to their college campuses. Most students have to use aid money, some of which comes from for-profit student loan corporations such as Sallie Mae. It is ironic that the self-proclaimed free market capitalists have imposed upon us a dire strait in which there is no choice regarding textbook purchases, and five publishers control over 85 percent of the market.

The situation parallels that of the pharmaceutical industry — for which our Congress happens to be happily on the payroll — and henceforth insures that the industry profits well from its oligopoly and calculated disregard for the sick.

Politicians talk incessantly about making college more affordable, but few and far between are willing to do what that would actually take, and has historically taken: increasing taxes on the wealthy few to lighten the youth’s burden.

Between 2002 and 2013, the price of college textbooks rose by 82 percent.

There have been zero grand innovations in textbook technology in that span — the increase is plainly due to rent-seeking and lack of competition.

Yet, while corporations and the billionaires associated with them increasingly make more money for less innovation and fewer services, many citizens — even those of modest means — can’t fathom taxing them around 70 percent: the marginal rate they paid throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, and the level recommended by most economists. Many believe it would be better to let a whole generation wither on

the vine, burdened with a generational debt never seen post-WWII.

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The price of a college textbook is a microcosm of everything currently wrong with higher education.”

To boot, this sacrificial lamb of a generation will also inherit trillions of dollars in national debt, largely the result of leaving American billionaires undertaxed while the country continued to spend trillions on two unpopular wars, and dragging the economy out of a Great Recession caused by the buoyant disregard of private banks during the housing bubble. There is also the looming threat of climate change to consider.

The price of a college textbook is a microcosm of everything currently wrong with higher education, and many things wrong with our nation.

In 2014, 65 percent of surveyed students said that they had decided against buying a textbook simply because it was too expensive. On that same note, 94 percent of the students who had skipped buying a required book said they were concerned that it would hurt their grade.

This is a clear example of private means playing a role in collegiate success, which often determines success in life. On a larger note, most young people can’t even afford college to begin with. Indeed, money seems to play a role in everything in today’s laissez-faire America.

The national minimum wage is $7.25. If the minimum wage grew with worker productivity, it

would be $20; if it grew with the average wages of production and nonsupervisory workers, it would be $10.

Seeing as a typical textbook today can cost $120, a student would have to work about 17 hours to be able to buy that one book.

Furthermore, a student attending college from 1973 to 1976 could have worked 306 hours at minimum wage and paid for their entire four-year public college degree. Today, a student would have to work at least 4,450 hours — 185 days nonstop — to be able to pay for their education.

The publishers who supply our educational materials stay prosperous by putting almost no effort into their books from year to year, often simply shifting around graphics and then titling it a new book — quite ironic.

They release a new book every year to undermine the used-book market, and to keep their publishing costs high. Furthermore, homework is hardly even assigned from these books, and many classes require the purchase of an online access code that can neither be bought used nor returned at the end of the semester — this code is either purchased separately or priced in as a package.

There should be a law against unnecessary updates for college textbooks, since the cumulative effect of this is needless additions to student debt. There should also be more choice in the textbook market, including open-source textbooks that are free, and have the potential to break the traditional publishers’ lock on the market.

was sitting in a lecture when my professor started to talk about how astrology is the biggest hoax ever. I know this wasn’t an attack on me personally, but as someone who looks at her birth chart on a daily basis, it sure felt like it. Granted, my professor does have a doctorate in astronomy so he knows a lot more than I do.

And even though astrology uses heavenly bodies to predict events that happen on Earth, there is no real science in those predictions.

However, people should not simply dismiss astrology altogether, because there is some value to it.

Humans have used the zodiac for thousands of years. With all the claims of astrology being a pseudoscience, it is remarkable that astrology is still as popular as ever. The public hasn’t completely turned away from astrology because many people have claimed that it is accurate to them personally. Whether it be their horoscopes coming true or something bad happening while Mercury is in retrograde, many people have had realistic experiences with astrology.

People putting their

faith in astrology is similar to holding on to religious beliefs. If people have faith in something, then scientific reasoning won’t change their minds. Astrology often gets a bad reputation because of people who try to scam others by charging exorbitant amounts of money for psychic/astrologer readings.

That’s not to say that every

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Astrology is meant to be lighthearted and fun, not a way to turn your entire life around.”

person who does psychic readings is out to take advantage of you; getting tarot cards or your palm read can be intriguing and fun.

However, everyone should stay away from psychics who take advantage of vulnerable people by saying that they can find your missing loved one or mend your broken relationship.

Astrology shouldn’t be used as a handbook on how to deal with life, but rather as an outlet for discovering possible events and outcomes. Many people

think that the horoscopes that you read in the newspaper are as far as astrology goes, when in reality, the majority of the individuals who write horoscopes for newspapers don’t specialize in astrology. That isn’t to discredit every journalist that prints daily horoscopes, because there are so many fun and interesting horoscopes that are printed in newspapers. However, you wouldn’t ask a cardiologist for tips on brain surgery.

Every individual specializes in different areas. If you want to learn more about actual astrology, I would recommend reading a book or contacting someone who is an expert in the field.

Astrology is meant to be lighthearted and fun, not a way to turn your entire life around. By trying to find out more about yourself through the zodiac, you can gain some helpful insight.

Astrology simply helps you understand things about yourself that you already know deep down.

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MARCH: Focus on local engagement from page 1

“Call to Action.” During “Hear Our Voice,” four speakers shared their experiences being young women and how their experiences helped to form their values.

During “Call to Action,” the speeches addressed problems in five specific areas: immigration, redist r icting, health ca re, Mountain Valley Pipeline and violence against women.

Each area was discussed by a different speaker.

Linda Perriello, spokesperson for OneVirginia2021, discussed redistricting reform. Carolyn Reilly, Virginia farm and business owner and spokesperson for Bold Alliance, which is a network of groups protecting land and water, addressed the pipeline opposition.

Yolanda Puyana, founder and president of Hacienda a nd Roa noke Lati no Festival, talked to the crowd about immigration issues.

Rebecca Wood, health care activist, and Christine Ristaino, senior lecturer at Emory University and author of “The Little Girl is Me,” addressed the issues in health care and violence against women.

At 1:45 p.m., keynote speaker Danielle Belton, editor in chief of the news site TheRoot.com, discussed the importance of voting and hyped the crowd up for the march.

“I hope to inspire folks,” sa id A m non i Myers, speaker at the event. “Not

only to get involved, but to be able to help channel any interchange within their community, so that it can create a wider change publicly.”

Djuna Osborne, organizer of the 2017 Women’s March who is also running for Roanoke City Council, was also present at the event and inspired young women in the crowd to run for office in the future.

T he ma rch c rowd started from Elmwood Park to Jefferson Street.

The marchers crossed Kirk Avenue and turned onto Campbell Avenue, then right onto Market Street. Then the crowd marched back to Elmwood Park, where the event started.

“What we hope to do is to get them engaged,” Andes said. “Give them a space to spend that energy, spend that concern, get involved, and again take their voice to the polls.”

According to Sprague, the main purpose of the march and the speeches is to get people involved in local issues.

“We want to capture the energy that people have and turn it into action. We don’t want people to show up this weekend in January, march and just go home,” Sprague said. “We want people to hear about certain things that they can try to do if there is a particular cause that they are interested in, maybe here is an action that you can take.” @Zelia_Liu

LOS ANGELES TIMES / TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Members of the media in front of the Perris, California, home of David and Louise Turpin, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018.

The couple were arrested on suspicion of torture and child endangerment after their 12 offspring were found shackled and malnourished.

TURPIN: Father of children held captive studied electrical engineering at Tech from page 1

Mi ke Gilber t, a Glenwood, West Virginia resident, told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that David Turpin was “kind of nerdy” and “kind of a homebody.”

James and Betty Turpin, his parents, still live in the Princeton area. They told ABC News that David Turpin became a computer engineer after graduating from Virginia Tech.

Turpin appears in the 1984 Bugle yearbook as a senior electrical engineering major; the address given for him is in Princeton. He was a member of Eta Kappa Nu, an electrical and computer engineering honor society, and recipient of the Marshall Hahn Engineering Merit

Scholarship his junior and senior years.

Afterward, he went to work for General Dynamics in Texas. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin confirmed that Turpin worked for them until 2010, and bankruptcy records show that he was working at Lockheed Martin as an engineer by 2011. He and his wife filed for bankruptcy last year with over $240,000 in debt, according to Reuters.

Louise Turpin is the daughter of former Mercer County assessor Allan “Wayne” Robinette, who died in 2016. Her sister, Teresa Robinette, told NBC News that she had left home at 16 to marry David Turpin, escaping a restrictive home where children were not

allowed to date or watch television.

James and Betty Turpin told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that they had not been to California in about six years, but that “the kids were fine” when they last visited. James Turpin and his attorney said he would try to get in contact with the children as soon as possible.

According to Hestrin, the siblings were only allowed to shower at most once a year. The Turpins had not allowed them to see a doctor in over four years and had never taken them to a dentist.

One of the older siblings did take classes at a local college, but Louise Turpin would accompany him and wait outside the classroom.

Some of the siblings did not know what a police

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officer was. Hestrin also said that the Turpins would sometimes buy pies and other food and leave it sitting out for the children to see while forbidding them to eat them. The siblings were not allowed to have toys but were allowed to write in journals.

“As a prosecutor, there are cases that stick with you, that will haunt you,” Hestrin said. “Sometimes in this business, we’re faced with looking at human depravity — and that’s what we’re looking at here.”

According to CBS News, their bail was set at $12 million each.

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Virginia Tech graduate reaches settlement in 2010 case James Cook was awarded $1 million in early January after being paralyzed from the waist down in the six-person cadet crash.

IZZY ROSSI news editor

Virginia Tech alumnus James Cook settled a lawsuit with a Corps of Cadets official in early January. Cook will be paid $1 million in the settlement as compensation under the Commonwealth of Virginia risk management plan, a fund that acts as insurance for state agencies and their employees.

The lawsuit was initially filed following a 2010 incident in which six cadets were involved in a single-car crash.

On Oct. 2, 2010, Cook was one of four Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets sophomores riding unrestrained in the cargo area of “an older model SUV” when their

vehicle “flipped and landed upside-down in a ditch causing all six of the patients to be trapped inside,” according to a 2010 Blacksburg Rescue press release.

It was “an officially sanctioned Corps event called sophomore initiation, for the sophomores of Echo Company. At the event, planned for Caldwell Fields, the sophomores are officially welcomed into their company,” said Larry Hincker, then-university spokesman in an email following the incident.

The cadets later reported to police that they had been told to pull their hats over their eyes while an older cadet drove wildly on a Montgomery County road.

Another sophomore cadet told police the aim was to rattle the initiates, replicating an initiation experience.

“Five patients were flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospit a l wit h p ot entially serious injuries. One patient was transported to Montgomery Regional Hospital by Blacksburg Rescue with non-life threatening injuries,” according to the Blacksburg Rescue press release. Cook suffered a “spinal burst fracture and permanent paralysis of his lower extremities at the time of the accident.”

Cook had more than $800,000 in medical expenses as a result of the crash as of 2017 and reported continued pain and trauma as a result of

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the accident, according to The Roanoke Times.

Thomas Friss, a cadet injured in the accident, suffered from a broken back and left femur, a fractured skull, and liver laceration.

Friss settled for $375,000 in court in late 2017. Timothy Black, another sophomore cadet injured in the crash, settled for $75,000 under the same state risk management plan as Cook.

The settlement brings the total amount paid by the Commonwealth of Virginia risk management plan from the incident to over $1.4 million. Cook’s lawsuit was dismissed in Montgomery County Circuit Court in early January.

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determined “hazing was involved” according to a letter written by then-Tech President Charles Steger in 2010.

The upperclassman cadet and driver of the car at the time of the accident, George Fesmire, was never charged with hazing following the

event. Fesmire was found guilty of misdemeanor reckless driving and paid a $500 fine shortly following the incident.

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Is bilingualism the key to greater cross-cultural understanding?

Only 20 percent of United States citizens can speak more than one language, despite the many benefits multilingualism offers.

LILY CARROLL

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As technology rapidly expands, the ability to connect, converse and share with people around the world is increasingly becoming easier. With the creation and development of the internet comes the existence of unprecedented levels of global communication. This has allowed for a greater cultural awareness of the world and the people

who live in it — including the languages said people speak. With roughly 6,909 living languages being spoken today, why is it that so many people, especially in the United States, are monolingual?

According to the U.S. Census, only 20 percent of Americans are bilingual; in the United Kingdom, that number is 38 percent.

When compared to the 56 percent of Europeans who are bilingual, primarily

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English-speaking countries seem to fall short.

But while a higher percentage of the world’s population speaks Mandarin, English is used in more countries; it is estimated that English is the official or primary language in 59 countries, spanning five continents. English is also increasingly used as the standard language of business, and is one of the six official working languages of the United

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Nations, alongside Chinese, Russian, Arabic, French and Spanish.

It is easy, then, to see why those who learn English as their first language, don’t feel the need to learn a second. But the benefits of bilingualism exceed just the ability to communicate, including cognitive benefits that start as early as childhood.

According to Vanessa D ia z, a psycholog y professor and director of Virginia Tech’s Language and Cognitive Development Lab, bilingua lism in children provides important perspective.

“There is something called theory of mind development which is children’s understanding of the mind — of what the mind is, that different experiences are going to lead to some different thoughts, that people know different things … we see more rapid development in these capacities (in bilinguals),” Diaz said.

In addition, Diaz says bi l i ng ua l ism provides

increased executive functioning — improving memory, attention, and cognitive f lexibility, or how quickly you can switch tasks.

But the benefits of bilingualism extend outside the brain and its functioning. With learning a new language comes exposure to different ways of thinking about grammar and syntax — strengthening one’s ability to speak and understand their native language, or language as a whole.

“Becoming bilingual makes you more aware of language structures both deep and superficial, so you become better pragmatically, stylistically, as a speaker and writer of your own native language. I am pretty sure even people who are learners of a foreign language at a basic level, that have not reached multilingual status, would say the same,” said Corinne Noirot, a French professor at Tech.

On the last, and perhaps most relevant benefit of bilingualism in today’s society, Diaz and Noirot

agree: promotion of cultural relativism.

C u lt u r a l r elat iv ism describes the concept that an individual’s beliefs and values should not be measured against the beliefs and values of others, but rather in the context of their culture. It is, essentially, the idea that there is no “standard” or “right” way of doing something on a global level, because one size does not fit all.

“Languages very literally shape the way we see the world. Knowing several (languages) pushes you away from ideas like what’s normal for me is either natural or universal, or how it should be, or the best. You are pushed towards cultural relativism,” Noirot said.

Perhaps in the search for a world that is not only more connected, but more compassionate and accepting, multilingualism is key.

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Camila Cabello’s debut record offers us something new and wonderful

The former Fifth Harmony member follows up the smash hit “Havana” with a record that showcases an unexpected dark side.

EMILY CARTER

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If one were to break away from a very popular girl group, this would be the way to do it.

Camila Cabello has officially broken away from

Fifth Harmony and come into her own with the debut album “Camila.” Each song on the album is unique, but all are connected through their Latin/Caribbean beats, confessions and lyrics that show who Cabello is as an artist, as well as a human

being.

This album offers amazing songs with catchy beats from start to finish, but there are a few that I believe are crucial to the album and show a real, raw side of Cabello — a side people didn’t see when she was in Fifth Harmony.

“Havana” ft. Young Thug Even if it’s the only line you know, everyone has heard “Havana oh nana,” at some point since the pop song hit the radio a few months ago.

The song pays homage to Cabello’s birth place with a Latin vibe using trumpets, piano and guitar. The song also merges Cabello’s life in Los Angeles with a hip-hop beat in the background and a verse from rapper Young Thug.

This song makes me want to go clubbing with my friends in Mexico and party with a beautiful Latin stud. But since I’m a broke college student, COURTESY OF EPIC RECORDS dancing to this song with my

roommate will suffice.

“Real Friends” “I’m just looking for some real friends, all they ever do is let me down.” Could this song be about her former group members in Fifth Harmony and their petty VMA performance last year? Is this song an explanation as to why she left the group?

Either way, it makes me feel bad for Cabello — everyone has dealt with their fair share of fake friends and never wants to go through that again.

This song is very relatable, and even though it’s not a fun experience to go through, it’s sometimes nice to see that famous people sometimes have the same problems we do.

“Consequences” “Loving you has consequences,” Cabello sings in this tear-jerking ballad, accompanied by only a piano.

This song shows a softer,

although darker, side of Cabello with her mentioning her OCD and anxiety (“little voices in my head”), as well as being in a toxic relationship that affected her mental and physical health.

Cabello sings in the first and second chorus about being free in the relationship, but in the last chorus she describes the relationship as being “dumb, dark and cheap.”

“All These Years” This is probably my favorite song on the album even though I can’t relate to it in any way. Cabello sings about seeing an ex from afar and noticing the differences from when they were together to when she sees them after the breakup.

This song may remind you of the time you saw your ex from freshman year in line at Qdoba and all of your emotions came rushing back.

With the soft guitar and beautiful lyrics, you’ll definitely be

in the feels.

Overall, I’m a fan of the album. Even though most of the songs are about relationships, the lyrics are both fun and upbeat while also being emotional and soul-bearing.

It’s nice for a Fifth Harmony fan to see a side of Cabello they couldn’t see when she was in the girl group, or a newcomer can understand her background and who Camila is because she shares every piece of her soul with the listener.

My only complaint? The album is only 37 minutes, because 10 songs plus a radio edit is not enough to quench the thirst that I have for Camila Cabello. I give this album five out of five stars.

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“50/50” (2011) Few f ilms manage to tackle the subject of life as a cancer patient with an adequate blend of grace, heart and trueto-life humanity; the fact that “50/50” does so while also being a bitingly funny stoner-comedy is pretty impressive. “50/50,” based on a semi-autobiographical script by Will Reiser, follows a 20-something radio writer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt — can you tell I’m a fan?) whose sudden spinal cancer diagnosis prompts him to challenge his own overly-cautious, life-on-the-safe-side demeanor and (maybe?) end up facing his own not-yetwelcome mortality. Throw

in the antics of a rambunctious and foul-mouthed but golden-hearted Seth Rogen and you have the perfect bromantic comedy for a night in.

“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010) There are certainly some strange movies on this list, but this one may just take the top rank. The beloved Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series and the relentlessly creative mind of director Edgar Wright (whose recent smash-hit “Baby Driver” is also well worth your time) come together to create “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” an adventure that’s half-movie, half-videogame, 10 0 percent off-the-wall. Our titular hero, portrayed by the always awkward Michael

Cera, falls head-over-Converse-clad-heels with the alluringly aloof Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but will only succeed in winning her heart if he can manage to defeat her Seven Evil Exes in 16-bit-style boss-battles. It’s every bit as weird as it sounds, but it’s still a delightful, wholly rewatchable tale. “ When Har r y Met Sally…” (1989) Ye a r s b efo r e the “friendzone” entered the common lexicon, there was the story of Harry and Sally. This quintessential romantic comedy follows a pair of best friends (Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan), each of whom spends the better part of a decade helping the other along with various heartbreaks and

milestones, all the while adamant that any possibility of a romantic relationship of their own has been long null.

It begs the age-old question of whether a man and a woman can truly remain “just friends,” and no matter what your position may be, you’ll probably end up questioning it as the credits roll.

Even if none of that interests you, watch it just so you can discover the origin of the phrase “I’ll have what she’s having” — it’s probably not (and way funnier than) what you’d expect.

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Men’s loses to Florida State, 91–82 JORDAN HUTCHINSON sports editor

Virginia Tech fell to 2–4 in the ACC on Saturday after dropping a game to Florida State, 91–82. The Hokies now face a must-win game on Monday versus No. 15 North Carolina to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes afloat.

“We’ve got to turn it around Monday,” said junior guard Ahmed Hill.

“Everybody will go home today and get their mind right then come back tomorrow and practice.

Then, Monday we have a game. So, it’s a quick turnaround, forget about this one and on to the next one.”

Hokies’ point guard Justin Robinson was tremendous for Tech on Saturday, as he scored a career-high 26 points, also finding his teammates for six assists. Robinson hit four of his seven attempts from beyond the arc, but missed two of his four free throws — an area that the Hokies struggled in versus Florida State.

Uncharacteristically, Tech shot 53 percent from the charity stripe in its loss to the Seminoles, which was a tough pill to swallow, as the Hokies usually average 74 percent from the line.

Justin Bibbs scored 19 points on 13 shots, while knocking down four of his

seven three-point attempts.

“It’s very tough,” Bibbs said when asked about how tough a pill the loss is to swallow, knowing they had a week to prepare. “If we don’t turn the ball over, that’s 20 points that they don’t have.

We just make the game so hard on ourselves. It just hurts a lot.”

Cold is an understatement for freshman guard Nickeil A lexa nder-Wa l ker on Saturday. At times, it seemed like AlexanderWalker was chucking up threes from Christiansburg — connecting on just one.

The frosh finished the game 2–9 from the floor, with just five points.

Florida State was led by MJ Walker, who scored a career-high 24 points in the ‘Noles win over Virginia Tech. The Hokies recruited Walker last season, and were in his final five, but Walker ultimately found his home in Tallahassee.

Guard Braian Angola scored 14 points, but banged his head twice — once on the court, the other against Justin Robinson’s head.

Angola left the game after colliding with Robinson in the second half.

Terance Mann scored 14, while CJ Walker scored 11 and dished out seven assists.

7-foot-4 center Christ Koumadje scored 10 and grabbed four rebounds.

Looking ahead, Virginia

Tech has quite a bit of work to do if it hopes to see its name pop up on the television on Selection Sunday.

Unfortunately for the Hokies, it won’t get any easier. Just take a look at their schedule to finish out the regular season.

“I don’t think it’s going to get any easier, personally I think it gets harder,” said head coach Buzz Williams.

“We will play a top-20 team on Big Monday, then we play at Notre Dame, and Notre Dame is the No. 1 offensive rebounding percentage team in the league, so that will be a test for us. Then, we play Boston College, who’s won more league games thus far this year than their previous three years combined. And then we come home and play Miami. So, I don’t know that it gets any easier — and in a demented way, I think that’s good.”

On Monday, Tech will get a shot at one of the blue bloods of the sport in primetime, as ESPN will come to Blacksburg for the Hokies bout versus No. 15 North Carolina. The Tar Heels will ride a four-game winning streak, and will seek their sixth conference win. The Hokies’ must-win game tips at 7 p.m. in Cassell Coliseum.

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WILL CAMPBELL / COLLEGIATE TIMES Ahmed Hill (13) guards CJ Walker (2) in the second half as Virginia Tech takes on Florida State in Cassell Coliseum, Jan. 20, 2018.

Women’s falls to No. 15 Duke, 86–76 JORDAN HUTCHINSON sports editor

Virginia Tech dropped to 13–5 on the season, as it fell to the No. 15 Duke Blue Devils, who were scorching hot in the second half, 86-76. “ O bv i o u s ly disappointed,” said Hokies head coach Kenny Brooks.

“We’re not into moral victories. We feel like we can move past that. I thought we played well in spurts tonight, but against a team like Duke, you’ve got to play well in more than just spurts.”

The Hokies played well in the first half — especially the first nine minutes of the second quarter, when Tech went on a 15–2 run over a six-minute span, and claimed the momentum.

The last minute of the second quarter, however, changed said momentum, as Duke finished the last 1:12 on an 8–0 run, tying the game at the half.

“The finish to the second quarter leading up to halftime was critical; we had an eight point lead and allowed them to tie it back up. I thought the momentum really swung in their favor from that point on,” Brooks said.

While the Hokies weren’t looking for moral victories, they might have had one, as guard Taylor Emery was red-hot and scored a

game-high 30 points.

Forward Alexis Jean added 17 points for Tech, wh i le g rabbi ng fou r rebounds in the paint. Guard Aisha Sheppard scored 10 while the Hokies’ sharpshooter, Kendyl Brooks scored six.

Regan Maga r ity struggled from the floor, connecting on just one of her nine attempts, and scoring just six points. She did, however, have a game-high 13 rebounds — five of which came on the offensive end, give the Hokies secondchance looks.

For the third straight game, point guard Chanette Hicks didn’t start the game, and instead came off the bench. Brooks said last week that he didn’t like Hicks’ focus, and instead started guard Rachel Camp.

“I think (Hicks) is working towards what we want. Hopefully we will get there sooner rather than later. She understands that she has to lock in and focus on all aspects of being a student-athlete while representing a university and program,” Brooks added.

“Just really proud of our team for fighting very hard against a very good Virginia Tech team,” said Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie. “Loved our third quarter, loved the intensity of our defense and loved the maturity of our offense.”

A record was shattered in Cassell, as Duke’s Haley Gorecki nailed seven threepointers in its win over the Hokies. Gorecki’s seven threes are the most by any opponent in the history of Cassell Coliseum.

“One of our coaches kept telling me to shoot,” Gorecki said. “I haven’t shot well in the past games, but he just kept telling me to shoot.

My players kept getting me the ball in the right position and they kept telling me to shoot.”

Duke was led by its point guard, Lexie Brown, who became the second-fastest player to 1,000 points in the school’s history while scoring 23 on Thursday.

Forward Erin Mathias scored 11, while altering four shots. Guard Rebecca G re enwel l added 10 points, while forward Jade Williams had seven in the Blue Devils’ win.

The Hokies will head to Charlottesville on Sunday to take on in-state rival, Virginia (12–7, 5–1). That game tips at 12:30 p.m., before Tech returns home next Thursday at 7 p.m. to welcome Georgia Tech (12–7, 1–5).

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EMILY BALL / COLLEGIATE TIMES Taylor Emery (1) dribbles through several Duke defenders and heads toward the basket, Jan. 18, 2018.

Hokies track and field excels all across the East Coast Virginia Tech’s track and field team finishes the weekend with 36 personal bests in Clemson, Lexington and Bloomington.

JOSH GANN

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The Virginia Tech track and field team boasted 11 top-three finishes in lateJanuary, competing in three different events.

The pole vault and jump/multi-event groups competed in Bloomington, Indiana, in a two-day event at the Gladstein Invitational.

On day one, freshman Lisa Gunnarsson placed first in the pole-vault event.

Gunnarsson has now placed first in the pole vault in

the first two weeks of the season. Freshman Rachel Baxter finished second in this event, and senior Olivia Privitera took fourth.

Senior Mackenzie Muldoon led the multievents group this weekend with top-eight finishes on both days in the 60 hurdles and the long jump.

Freshman Matthew Manilli also performed well this weekend, finishing fourth in the 400 meters on day one and setting a career-best long jump on day two.

Distance runners

Laurie Barton and Rachel Pocratsky headlined the distance group this week with their first-place finishes. The group opened up their season in the Keydet Invitational in Lexington, Virginia, on Saturday and posted 11 top-five finishes.

Barton won the 800 meters with a time of 2:12.71, and junior Shannon Quinn took second place in the same event. During the mile event, Pocratsky not only won, but set a personal record of 4:44.83. Sophomore Sarah Edwards claimed second

place in the mile, making it the second event of the day that the Hokies nabbed first and second place.

At the Clemson Invitational this weekend, the sprints team continued to produce top - eight finishes for the Hokies.

On day one, sophomore Keishaun Limehouse and senior Greg Chiles were particularly impressive.

Limehouse ran the fifthfastest time in school history in the 60-meter dash, and freshman Kennedy Dennis posted the sixth-best time

in school history. Chiles finished seventh in the 400 meter race.

On day two, Amanda Thomas posted the only top-eight finish on the women’s side by placing eighth in the 600 meters.

Chiles was once again impressive on day two, finishing fourth in the 200 meter.

The Hokies are off to a strong start this season, with several wins and several improving per for mers.

There were a total of 36 personal records set

across all three teams this weekend, which shows that this team is growing. This team has the potential to do big things in the ACC and beyond this season if it continues to improve like it did this weekend.

The Hokies will travel back to Clemson next weekend to participate in the two-day Bob Pollack Invitational, which will be held on Friday, Jan. 26, and Saturday, Jan. 27. @JoshGannVT