5 do-it-yourself ways to renovate your room while spring cleaning As the weather continues to get nicer and social activities remain closed, spring cleaning can become more appealing for those practicing self-distancing and quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Open-Minded: Deadly fascination When I was a kid, I wanted to be Nancy Drew. I bought the kinds of clothes she was said to wear in the books, and I always carried a notebook around with me to write down clues. I was Sophie, the third-grade detective.
Department of Theatre and Dance ‘Twelfth Night’ cast, crew adds modern twist to Shakespearean comedy For seven years, junior musical theater major Gillian Lieberman spent half of her days at school and the other half on the stage.
Open-Minded: Changing traditions We all remember waking up our parents up at 7 a.m. Christmas morning to run down the stairs and see the presents Santa Claus left under the tree. My family traditionally would wake up, eat muffins and bacon and open gifts. After opening all of the presents, we would get dressed and head down to southern Indiana to see our extended family. We would always spend the night at the Holiday Inn in Columbus, Indiana. Why? Simply because it’s a tradition.
Open-Minded: I am not ashamed. My anxiety is not a vulnerability to me but instead a way for me to educate others about mental illnesses and show they are nothing to be ashamed of.
Open-Minded: The Amazon is not in its prime The Amazon is on fire, as most people know by now. However, most people are completely unaware that these fires have been happening all year — in fact, there have already been 70,000 individual fires, according to National Geographic and Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
Open-Minded: Critical currents Growing up in Westfield, Indiana, I knew we had a newspaper but I never read it. I usually just watched the local news in Indianapolis – which I don’t really constitute as “local” – and read about global events online. But, this summer I had the amazing opportunity to intern for one of those newspapers I never really read – the Current.
Open-Minded: Just another music festival What makes Woodstock 50 any different from any other music festival?
Open-Minded: Out of service You open your phone after a long day of classes, homework and social-life drama. All you want in your life is to text your BFF, turn on the new Ariana Grande album and check Instagram for the 100th time that day. But, as you hit your home screen, you get a pop-up message: “Please login to iCloud account.”
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