All Entries in the "Features" Category
It’s Our Job to Give You the News, Not the OC Register’s
Here we are in week three, the week when the fate of the New University’s 45 year history may come to a close within the next year. Where those blue bins you pick up a copy of the paper each week from will just go into storage or straight into the dumpster, only to become [...]
Remember When?: Music
I’m just going to come right out and say it: for the most part, I can’t stand our generation’s music. The songs are catchy, sure, but if you listen to the words, you’ll find that they lack meaning and depth. And isn’t that why we listen to music in the first place? To feel a [...]
According to Traci
Step into Traci Ishigo’s office, and you’ll find a clutter of items that signify the various campaigns, events and policies that she has taken part in over the past year. An administration hierarchy board, busy calendar, ART Lab materials and shirts from the “Language is Powerful” campaign are — among many others — remnants of [...]
The Dish List: Sprinkles Ice Cream
The scene at the Corona del Mar Plaza is one that’s no stranger to large crowds and long lines. Just south of Fashion Island in Newport Beach, the quaint shopping center has a parking lot that is always packed and a continous line of customers trailing out the door of one particular bakery. But as [...]
What We Are, Your Paper
I’ve walked into the New University Newspaper newsroom for four years now, one as a staff writer and three as an editor. In the back of our room sits a bookshelf with fancy leather bound books containing pages that I had taken for granted for years — until last week. As I contemplate the threat [...]
The Other Road: From English to Law
Natalie Badalof is a fourth-year Anteater from Santa Clarita, California. She is an English major who will graduate in June. Her favorite book is “Invisible Monsters” by Chuck Palahniuk, and when asked if she reads a lot she replies, “Yeah.” The professions you envision when you think of an English major are usually a writer, [...]
Oh Nam!
At 14 years old, Nam Ho sat in a freshman biology class at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, scratching scribbles into a notebook. His friends always asked him to do graffiti designs on T-shirts for them. Artsy, Ho was handy with a spray-paint canister, often painting canvases in his garage. His mother is [...]
Remember When: Fashion
Nostalgia: the warm, yearning feeling that ensues when you think back to the simpler times of your life. Or, in some cases, the cringing feeling you get when you recall something from your past that up until now you’ve worked so hard to forget. Either way, we can all agree that we’ve bonded with someone [...]
A Distinguished Professor
When I first stepped foot into Professor Donald Blake’s office, any nerves that I had about interviewing him were immediately alleviated by the sight of his Bruce Springsteen poster, the smell of books that filled the room and the stereo in the back of the room quietly humming classic rock. There were countless pictures of [...]
In One Major, Out the Other
Before I went to college, I thought everything in my life had to be set in stone. Parents pressured us to make quick decisions, teachers warned us about taking our futures seriously and people everywhere asked us the age-old question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Even college applications required us [...]
