Highly Casual Corner: The Relatable Selfishness of Hotline Bling
Drake poured a dumptruck of cement around the foundations of his stardom with “Hotline Bling.” In the delightfully self-indulgent music video, Drake executes alone-in-your-bedroom dance moves, shimmies in glowing interdimensional gaps and nestles into the convexities and concavities of cartoonishly thick women.
Broncos Seeded Fourth in Tourney
Santa Clara women’s soccer (13-5-2) made the NCAA tournament for the twenty-fifth time in program history this week and is slated for a first-round matchup against Long Beach State University (12-6-3) this Saturday.
Law School Frees Man after 15 Years
A wrongfully convicted man who served nearly 15 years of his life in a cold, concrete California prison cell is now walking the streets a free man — all because of work done by Santa Clara’s own lawyers and law students.
Highly Casual Corner: EDM is the Best Bet for Biebs
Bieber became enviable as Youtube’s first bonafide star, flipping some pre-pubescent covers into a spot under Usher’s cologned, leather wing. His seven-song debut EP, “My World” went platinum. All seven songs charted. No other musician has done that on their first try.
Finding Hope During the Great Depression
Income inequality is at a higher level now than during the Great Depression. So during Santa Clara’s production of Clifford Odet’s 1935 play, “Awake and Sing!,” audiences can find striking similarities between themselves and a struggling three-generation Jewish American family in the 1930s Bronx.
Who Really Saves Money on Black Friday?
Millions of Americans will rush to malls this Thanksgiving to take care of their Christmas lists during the time when stores have their most affordable prices: Black Friday.
Liccardo Shares Vision
Nancy Sanchez, senior communications associate for the Silicon Valley Leadership Program interviewed Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose and University President Fr. Engh, S.J., to a crowd of hundreds packed into the Recital Hall on Nov. 5
Campus Crime
Nov. 3: Several non-campus residents reportedly gained access into Swig Residence Hall, running up and down the hallway, knocking on doors and causing a disturbance. CSS responded but was unable to locate them. Video camera footage is being reviewed in an attempt to identify the students.
Hapa Cup of Sugar Explores Being Biracial in the Bay Area
Historically, “hapa” referred to someone who was half-white and half-Pacific Islander, though these days it simply means “biracial.” Martinez herself is hapa (half-Mexican, half-Filipino) and soon after learning the word, Martinez came up with the title of her play “Hapa Cup of Sugar,” which is a reflection of Marissa’s experiences growing up biracial in the Bay Area.
Unity 4 Hosts Lively Open Forum With Administration
Concerned students were hard pressed to find seating on Monday night as they filled the Graham Residence Hall commons to engage with university administrators in a frank discussion about diversity at Santa Clara. Unity 4, a student activist group dedicated to bringing racial and sexual identity discrimination to the forefront of campus conversation, hosted the event.
Great Debate: Layman or Priest?
As the number of men joining the Jesuit Order has drastically dwindled over the past few decades, Santa Clara may have to break its oldest tradition. The University could one day allow an unordained person, commonly referred to as a layperson, to serve as its president.
Pocket Points Motivates Students to Study
A new app called Pocket Points, which rewards students for not using their phones in class, is taking Santa Clara by storm. The concept is straightforward. One simply downloads the free app and creates a login, then the student locks the phone and begins to accumulate “points.”
Love Jones Featured Artist: First-Year Slam Poet Riley O’Connell
During her senior year of high school, Santa Clara first-year Riley O’Connell wrote a 15-minute slam poem that earned her a spot among five finalists vying to be 2015’s Denver Youth Poet Laureate. It was her first official poetry performance.
California Tempest
A storm has come, and Santa Clarans have reason to fear. Precepitation in the upcoming months is expected to be colossal. The Santa Clara community received a powerfully-worded cautionary email on Oct. 27 from David Burns, director of Emergency Planning about the impending likelihood of intense flooding and rolling blackouts due to the El Niño storm.
Cultural Appropriation on Halloween
This Halloween, Santa Clara’s administration made a point to emphasize that students would be representing our school when they were out at night, specifically when it came to their costumes. We were strictly warned to “appreciate not appropriate” and choose costumes that were in “good taste.”
Campus Crime
Alcohol Related Medical Emergency- Oct. 30: A female student was observed intoxicated and being assisted by other students at the entrance of Dunne Residence Hall. She admitted to drinking about five shots of hard alcohol at an off-campus party. She was identified as an underage student.
Metalachi Kills During Day of the Dead Show
Dia de Los Muertos and metal music both celebrate death. So Metalachi, “The World’s First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band,” made an appropriate headliner last Friday at the Ritz in Downtown San Jose. The band pumps out suave, yet worshipful mushings of the two genres.
Broncos Continue NCAA Course
This weekend, Santa Clara women’s soccer team played a pair of must win games for conference title hopes, but were only able to win one as they tied Saint Mary’s College.