By Chris Allison
Copy Editor
Photos by Chris Allison | David Newman announces the purchase award winners.
The Brookhaven College School of the Arts hosted an awards reception for the Spring Juried Student Art Exhibition on May 8.
Student work was displayed and awaited critique Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Entertainment
By Aaron Ortega
Opinion Editor
Next year, the new core initiative may require fewer math courses to satisfy the “quantitative reasoning” requirement under the new draft of the Continue reading
Posted in Campus News
By Nicholas Bostick
New Media Editor
Photo by Nicholas Bostick | The donation box for the SGA student gift sits in front of the cashiers inside the Brookhaven bookstore.
The Brookhaven College Student Government Association is creating a class gift program to benefit future Brookhaven students Continue reading
Posted in Campus News
By Kathryn DeBruler
Staff Writer
Illustration by Vadim Dozmorov
There once was a time when soap ads featured soap, steam billowing out from beneath closed doors and generically attractive people lathering their hair into peaks like beat- en egg whites. There once was a time when companies were honest about wanting us to buy shampoo and when consumers did so because of “new and improved formulas.” Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Amy White
Staff Writer
Picture this: Long ago, a bunch of old guys are sitting around a wooden table, drinking coffee and stroking their scraggly beards. They are furiously writing math problems and constantly dipping their quill pens into inkwells. For fun, one of these mad mathematicians tells the group Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
By Chris Allison
Copy Editor
Photos by Scott Mitchell | Michael Hogue addresses the crowd at his Atrium Gallery reception April 28.
More than 50 works of brightly colored art covered the walls of Brookhaven College’s Atrium Gallery from March 25 to April 26.
Pieces ranged the spectrum of artistic techniques. Newspaper illustrations and paintings done on scrap pieces Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Entertainment
Movie Review
By Azure Wedan
Managing Editor
The Illuminati strike again, this time with a $127 million blockbuster film adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” replete with Jay-Z, Kanye and Beyoncé tracks. Extravagance and glamour radiate from Australian producer Baz Luhrmann’s fifth full-length movie. The screenplay, co-written by Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Entertainment
Theater Review
By Bradley Varnell
Staff Writer
The two-week run of Theatre Brookhaven’s “Almost, Maine” closed May 5, following eight performances. The cast of 12 captured the ups and downs and the laughs and tears that come along with Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Entertainment
By Scott Mitchell
A&E/Sports Editor
Photos by Kathy Tran, Scott Mitchell Earl Ward | A handmade “God bless West” sign serves to raise the spirits of those in the area.
The explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killed 15 people and injured more than 160 on April 17, as reported by the Associated Press. Through all of the death and tragedy, the small town of approximately 2,800 hosted thousands of volunteers seeking to help those who were affected Continue reading
Posted in Local News
By Earl Ward
Senior Staff Writer
Photos by Earl Ward | an eagle from the Birds of Prey exhibition screams.
The Scarborough Renaissance Festival covers 35 acres and hosts more than 2,000 performers, artisans and staff. The Faire has been held in Waxahachie, Texas, just south of Dallas on Interstate Highway Continue reading
Posted in Local News
