The Akron Zips Men’s Soccer team is heading to its sixth College Cup appearance after toppling defending national champion Stanford in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. This is a comeback against a team that previously squashed Akron’s championship dreams last season and in 2015. Akron will travel west to Santa Barbara, Calif. to face Michigan State in the College Cup semifinal on Friday, Dec. 7. The Zips previously beat the Spartans, 2-1, during the regular season. The Zips, who have maintained a 14-6-2 record thus far, made quick work of their regular season opponents and shut out Western Michigan, 3-0, to clinch its 15th MAC Championship title. Akron went through the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a 3-1 victory over Rider and would repeat that score in their second-round win against Syracuse. The Zips went on to stun top-seeded Wake Forest in a 1-0 upset in the third round. In the quarterfinal, the Zips found themselves again facing arch-nemesis Stanford. The two...

Hours after a 28-3 loss to South Carolina to end the season, The University of Akron announced that football head coach Terry Bowden was relieved of his duties as the Zips finished the season with a 4-8 record. In his seven seasons with the Zips, Bowden, maintained a 35-52 record while also establishing several signature achievements for the team, including a 5-2 record over arch-rival Kent State during his tenure. Bowden led the Zips to two bowl games in the past three seasons, capturing the team’s first-ever bowl win at the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in 2015. In 2017, Akron earned its ticket to Detroit to appear in the MAC Championship for the first time since 2005, losing to Toledo in the conference title game. The Zips would go on to stun Big Ten powerhouse Northwestern in an upset that marked Akron’s first Big Ten defeat since toppling Ohio State in 1894 under head coach John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named. The defeat over Northwestern would prove to be...

Sunday, Nov. 18, the Akron Zips Men’s Soccer team took a 3-1 win over Syracuse in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on the campus of Colgate University. With this win, the Zips advance to the Sweet 16 of the tournament where they will play top-seeded Wake Forest. The Zips have now gone on a six-game winning streak. According to GoZips.com, Sophomore David Egbo (Enugu, Nigeria) and junior Marcel Zajac (Mississauga, Ontario) had the team high of 4 shots each. Also, senior Abdi Mohamed (Westerville, OH) had 3 shots, senior Ezana Kahsay (Asmeras, Eritrea) and sophomore Daniel Strachan (Lakewood, OH) had 2 shots each. The Zips goalkeeper, senior Ben Lundt (Berlin, Germany) had five saves for the game while Syracuse keeper, Hendrik Hilpert had eight saves. In the opening half, the Zips were outshot 12-10, including 6-5 on goal. Mohamed gave the Zips their initial lead at the 36-minute mark with his first goal of the season. Egbo took a ball from a Syracuse defender...

On Saturday, Nov. 17, the Akron Zips football team took on Bowling Green at InfoCision Stadium-Summa Field. Senior PK Nick Gasser (Liberty Township, Ohio) was able to score for the Zips in the first quarter with a 38-yard field goal and a 32-yard field goal in the second quarter. Also in the second quarter, senior DB Jordan George (Dayton, Ohio) intercepted the ball and returned 53 yards. This was George’s seventh career interception and the first of the current season. With 10 seconds left in the second quarter, Bowling Green scored a touchdown and made the PAT. At halftime, this left the Zips down 7-6. In the third quarter, the Falcons were able to increase their lead to 14-6 with a touchdown run. Bowling Green capped their win over the Zips at 21-6 after an 8-yard pass. This game also coincided with UA’s Senior Night. The Zips football team had a senior class of 29 student-athletes who have lost the last three consecutive Mid-American Conference games. A full...

What makes poetry, poetry? Ask that question of a dozen poets, scholars or readers and you’ll get as many different answers, maybe more. Some won’t be much help: “Poetry is the sort of thing poets write,” Robert Frost is said to have said. I’m sorry I asked. If we struggle with poetry, this struggle to define it is partly to blame. It would be easier if poetry obeyed certain rules—if we could trust it to rhyme, or appear in lines or make sense. Easier, maybe, but certainly less exciting: set a limit for what “counts” as poetry and poetry will defy that limit, out of necessity or spite. Critics who fume “that’s not poetry” today will tomorrow be laughed out of the room. Maybe Frost was on to something, maybe we should be less concerned with defining what poetry is and more interested in understanding what it does. Poetry awakens us to the aesthetic qualities of our language. Words are thoroughly weird. How is it that we have come to agree that these seemingly...

Editor's Note: The writer would like to clarify that the contents of this article were originally written several years ago for poetic purposes only. The following poem does not necessarily represent the thoughts, emotions or actions of the writer. A flower in the snow, a flaw in the system. Struggling to stay alive, but have already lost the fight. Falling to no end, it's useless to scream. Smiling through everything, to gain pain from spite. Dark colors collide, my moon-pale skin. Hides self-made secrets, like beauty's poisoned lotus. A stray cat flees, from signs of hope. My mood isn't rare, just unfortunately unnoticed. The signs storms show, my internal divergence. Music's going to slow, never sounding the same. Slowly losing interest, from an earthly place. Protect the silent destruction, and you become changed. How can I find myself, when I was never whole. What kind of monster have I turned into now? No one will dare come close, they have all given up. I am like...

On Nov. 22, the Akron Zoo kicked off their third annual holiday lights show, Wild Lights. The lights show is separate from general zoo admission and will run 20 dates between Nov. 23 and Dec. 30 from 5-9 p.m. Douglas Piekarz, President and CEO of the zoo, said he is excited about the 2018 program and hopes families will “come and share the holiday joy.” According to the Akron Zoo’s website, pre-sale tickets for Akron Zoo members are $9 for adults, and tickets for children ages 2-14 are $6. Presale tickets for Akron Zoo non-members are $12 for adults and $8 for children ages 2-14. Pre-sale tickets are defined as tickets bought more than 24 hours in advance, according to the zoo's website. For day-of purchases, tickets for members are $12 for adults and for children ages, 2-14 tickets are $9. For non-members, tickets are $15 for adults, and $11 for children ages 2-14. Parking and shuttle fees are $3 at the gate. The zoo’s website lists a packed schedule for the lights show....

The Champions of Magic, a magic show featuring five world-class illusionists, will be performing at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall on Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. as part of their 2018 international tour. Tickets for the performance must be reserved in advance and can be purchased on Ticketmaster. Prices range from $30 to $100 with no listed discount for University of Akron students. According to the UA events website, the performance “features original magic that can’t be seen anywhere else,” with several different acts from each illusionist. Fernando Velasco, the escape artist with the Champions of Magic, said people should go to the show because it is unique from any other magic show in the world. “There’s five different styles of magic,” Velasco said. “It’s just an absolutely crazy show and the production value is like very few in the world.” “Incredible illusions with supercars, an impossible escape from Houdini’s water torture cell, a mind-blowing prediction that...

One of the greatest gifts each holiday season are the delicious and delicate treats all around. Here are some that members of the Editorial Board like to indulge in: Prettiest Peanut Butter Cookies Brooklyn Dennison Editor in Chief This is a rather new recipe that I have been trying out, but everyone in my family loves it so far. It is an easy recipe to make beautiful looking peanut butter cookies. Best of all, they taste great! Ingredients: 1 cup of firmly packed sugar. 1 stick of butter. ½ cup of peanut butter. 1 ½ cup of flour. 1 large egg. ½ teaspoon of baking powder. ½ teaspoon of baking soda. A dash of salt. Instructions: Heat oven to 350°F. Mix brown sugar, butter and peanut butter in a large bowl. Mix in the egg and vanilla. Lastly, mix in dry ingredients until well mixed. Roll dough into ½ inch balls. Place them on a cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Flatten in a criss-cross pattern with a fork dipped in sugar. Bake...

The classic quote, “Why not Akron,” has never been more relevant than it is today. 2018 saw the launch of the Bowery Project downtown and with it, a promising future for the city. A full article on what the project entails can be found in a piece written by Crain’s Business, here. In summary, the $42 million Bowery Project will be breaking ground to revitalize an important stretch of Main Street near the Civic Theater later this year. The project will create just under 100 new apartments as well as 40,000 square feet of retail and mixed-use space. In conjunction with this, the Akron Civic Theater will begin work on a $5 million renovation right next door to create a new concert venue, outdoor viewing screen and a new administration office. Not only that, but a block away, the CitiCenter will also receive a $20 million redevelopment creating 60 moderately priced apartments, 20,000 square feet of office space and 3,000 square feet dedicated to amenities. In short, that is a...

When I was a child, I used to take my parent’s old Queen CD’s and play them nonstop So when I began watching the movie about frontman Freddie Mercury, I was thrilled. Unfortunately, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 2018 movie about Mercury’s life, did not meet my expectations. “Bohemian Rhapsody” was not a terrible movie. It had plenty of funny, heartfelt moments. However, to me and plenty of LGBTQ people, Mercury was a queer icon. Because of this, I was expecting much more and much better LGBTQ representation in the movie. The representation that the film had was negative stereotypes and predatory behavior that only could have been done by director Bryan Singer, a man with multiple sexual abuse accusations. Sexual Assault There are multiple scenes in the movie where sexual assault is a plot motivator and the characters committing the sexual assault seem to face no immediate penalty for their actions. In one scene Paul Prenter, the manager of Queen, aggressively kisses Mercury...

Nov. 20 marks Transgender Day of Remembrance, an event started in 1999 to honor people whose lives have been lost to anti-trans violence. According to GLAAD, a non-governmental LGBTQ organization, the day was started by Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to Rita Hester. The vigil commemorated all the trans people that were killed since Hester’s death. Since then, the tradition is carried on by cities who host their own vigils, such as Cleveland, and in the hearts and minds of LGBTQ folks and allies.   To commemorate trans lives, The Buchtelite would like to pay respect to the Ohioans that have lost their lives to anti-trans violence. Below is a list of some trans individuals who have died within the past few years. This is by no means a complete list, as LGBTQ hate crimes often go unreported. If you know a person who lost their life due to anti-trans violence and would like them to be added to this list, please contact editor-in-chief@buchtelite.com. Betty Skinner, 52, Cleveland Bri...