3.5/ 5 stars Beauty and the Beast continues Disney’s trend of increased diversity and political relevance set by Zootopia and Moana in its box-office dominating debut. Though Beauty and the Beast conveys important and contemporary message in a beautifully shot film that stays true to the original, it proves to be a lackluster contribution to […]
Redefining romance
By Sandra Moore Assoc. Design Editor The ideal man in fifth grade and parts of middle school was a pale, sparkly vampire with the unnerving habit of creeping at night into the room of the girl to whom he was attracted. Then, the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey created yet another supposedly ideal man whose […]
Closing Windows to Online Predators
By Sandra Moore Staff Writer The abundance of social media websites on the Internet make it easy for child predators to find their prey. YouTube prankster Coby Persin showed this in his viral video in which he created a fake Facebook account and posed as a 15 year-old boy looking to meet up with girls. […]
Advocacy: the hottest Summer trend
By Sandra Moore Staff Writer & Illustrator On June 26, the Supreme Court announced its decision to legalize gay marriage in all 50 states, to the delight of the LGBTQA community. Online communities and websites instantly flocked to support in the form of rainbow hearts on Twitter, rainbow stick figures on Google, and perhaps most […]
Discrimination: It’s in our blood
By Sandra Moore Staff Writer Illustrations by Sandra Moore American Red Cross states on their website that every two seconds, someone in the US needs blood. When donors give their blood, blood centers put the blood through five levels of testing, which searches for HIV and syphilis and other infectious diseases. As men who have […]