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Day: October 5, 2018

Featured Features: The Nun
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Featured Features: The Nun

Full of opinions, but free of spoilers. The latest feature to come out in the megaplex was the highly anticipated spooky movie, The Nun. The Nun follows the origin story of our good pal, Valak. Sister Valak made her first appearance in s hared universe The Conjuring 2, when she appeared for our favorite ghost hunter, Lorraine Warren. Valak undeniably made a lot of hearts stop and eyes hide behind fingers in her big screen debut, so the likelihood of her getting her own movie was very strong from the get go. When the news broke that Valak was getting her own movie for real, I was super pumped! I mean, she was terrifying in The Conjuring 2 and I craved more of her black sunken eyes and pointy nose. Then the first, and only, trailer came out for The Nun and I was still intrigued but not as h...
Featured Features – A Simple Favor
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Featured Features – A Simple Favor

Full of opinions, but free of spoilers. This weekend came with the release of A Simple Favor starring, the Tony award-winning, Anna Kendrick as Stephanie, Blake Lively as Emily and Harry Golding, from Crazy Rich Asians (if you haven’t seen CRA go now) as Sean. So, the trailer for A Simple Favor offers you one small detail about the movie, that Emily is missing and no one can figure out where she went to. The trailer also paints a vague picture that the film might be a horror-esc movie? At least that’s what it insinuated to me. What you don’t know about going into this movie is how much you’re probably going whisper under your breath, “What is actually going on?”, to yourself multiple times. I did in fact think, whisper and audibly say that phrase way too many times while watching this fi...
AUM’s Homecoming Queen Competes in Miss Black USA
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AUM’s Homecoming Queen Competes in Miss Black USA

BY: Brittany Vallely Kelli Abernathy, AUM’s 2018 Homecoming Queen, went to her first national pageant this past August for the Miss Black USA pageant in Washington D.C., and won first runner-up. Miss Black USA is a non-profit corporation that provides scholarship opportunities and gives women the chance to shine on stage in their own unique way. Abernathy has been an experienced pageant competitor and queen for quite some time. She was the first African American crowned Miss Clay Chalkville Outstanding Teen in 2012, and the first black Homecoming Queen at her high school. After that, Abernathy felt ready to take pageantry to the next level and competed for Miss Alabama Outstanding teen, Miss Alabama Teen USA, and won Miss Heart of Alabama USA in 2015. She was then crowned Miss ...
Top 3 Trends That Have Taken Over Social Media
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Top 3 Trends That Have Taken Over Social Media

BY: Savanna Sabb Trends come and go so fast before any of us even have a chance to catch on or determine if we like them or not. As college students, most of us are not as much in the loop because we are too busy trying to keep our GPA on the right track rather than worry about the latest dance challenge that has been swarming the internet. I took the liberty in researching what trends have been popular lately because scrolling through my Instagram feed and not having any idea of what the latest memes mean or why people are randomly doing a certain dance is starting to get old. So without further ado the following is a list of 3 trends that have been popular on social media over the last couple of months. #inmyfeelingschallenge: This challenge is probably one that you have most likel...
Female Voices in Theatre
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Female Voices in Theatre

BY: Olivia Crutchfield Theatre AUM’s first production of the 2018-2019 season is in full swing, and like previous years it’s being kicked off with a showcase. The showcases are a compilation of scenes and monologues from various plays all regarding a certain theme. This years’ showcase is showcasing monologues and scenes all written by women; Female Voices. The underrepresentation of women is evident in many industries, and unfortunately theatre is an industry where women have also been forgotten or completely misrepresented in works. Studies and numbers can clearly show how great the gap is between men and women. Although these numbers can be powerful in themselves, when you’re in the industry, even a small portion of it, you understand how women are often forgotten or written as ch...
Tips For Nailing Your Next Interview
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Tips For Nailing Your Next Interview

BY: Chelsea Bassett Interviews can be extremely nerve-racking and incredibly frustrating, especially if you feel like you’re overwhelmingly underprepared. However there are some simple and effective steps one can take to make sure they nail their next interview. The following are commonly known as the Three C’s of a job interview and should be able to be answered before any job interview that you have according to forbes.com: Competence: Do you have the capability, skills, knowledge, and experience to not only accomplish the job, but accomplish it well? Compatibility: Will you make a good fit for the company and share in its core values and beliefs by helping the company succeed in achieving them? Chemistry: Are you someone who this company/employer wants to work with? ...