Senior musician farewell
Tyler Strohl, Staff Reporter
May 14, 2013
As the year draws to a close, many seniors either struggle with leaving or are very anxious for summerand the real world. For those that have expressed themselves through music at Carthage, the time has come to hang up the guitars and close the pianos. Three senior ladies involved in some curricular music,... Read more »
Deal breaker: U.S. Cellular’s sale leaves to customers to pay the price
Tony Farella, Web Copy Editor
May 14, 2013
Chicago based mobile service provider U.S. Cellular gave over a half a million subscribers a wake up call last month announcing that their cellphones would soon be rendered useless. After reaching a $480 million deal with Sprint, U.S. Cellular notified about 10 percent of its subscribers that in order... Read more »
Graphic design senior show
Ryan Sotzen, Staff Reporter
May 14, 2013
Graphic designers here at Carthage are allowed an experience that most art students at other undergraduate institutions do not get: creating and presenting their own art gallery. Designers, with a group of their classmates, create a space showing off their graphic designs and talents as young artists.... Read more »
The Great Gatsby: Movie exceeds box-office expectations
Kendra Koeppen, Editor in Chief
May 14, 2013
The highly anticipated film, “The Great Gatsby,” made its $51.1 million debut this past weekend, far exceeding the expectations of Warner Bros.’s anticipated $40 million opening weekend. This is the fifth adaption of the “The Great Gatsby,” the first being a silent film produced in 1926 under... Read more »
The Great Gatsby: Soundtrack lacks glitz of film
Michael Snydel, Copy Editor
May 14, 2013
For all the justified worries about cheese titan Baz Luhrman ruining F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal novel with his characteristic gaudiness, blunt storytelling and chaotic musical interludes, “The Great Gatsby’s” soundtrack is bizarrely improved by the garishness that caused a tonal tailspin in... Read more »
Court of nobility
Michael Snydel, Copy Editor
May 7, 2013
Somewhere in the past decade, nerd stopped being a bad word. Where previous incarnations of the term imagined hapless locker-bound mathletes and socially awkward gollums toiling away in the high school A.V. club, the advent of the Internet has made nerddom cool and shaken off the distressingly cartoonish... Read more »
Television brings its own blockbusters this summer
Michael Snydel, Copy Editor
May 7, 2013
This summer, the theater won’t be the only place for blockbusters. This summer has already lined up a star-studded roster of new and returning television shows that could easily compete with the big budget spectacles playing at the cinema. From the long-awaited return of the Bluths to the final chapters... Read more »
OMG Oxford
Megan Harrison, Photo Editor
May 7, 2013
Every year, news websites publish “shocking” articles about the integration of words inspired by the Internet into official English dictionaries. Reviews pour in from both critics, who see the inclusion of slang and texting shorthand initialisms as an offense to the language itself, and supporters,... Read more »
Iron Man 3 review
Sean Rogers, Staff Reporter
May 7, 2013
Although the name includes the number 3, Iron Man 3 should really be considered the fourth Iron Man film. This sequel draws more than just a few references to “The Avengers,” which served as a major turning point in Tony Stark’s life. We also get to see how the wormhole event in New York affected... Read more »
Student spotlight: Henry Kruger
Brittani Risinger, Production Designer
May 7, 2013
Henry Kruger, ’16, received a standing ovation Wednesday night after he performed a series of covers and self-written originals at CAB’s student spotlight. Kruger has preformed once before in the student spotlight at Carthage and fully intends to perform at CAB events for the rest of his Carthage... Read more »