By Alyssa Alexsonshk, Social Media and Online Edition Editor

December 23, 2022 • No Comments

The University of Akron alum and current student Eric Schweitzer creates unique, over-the-top, three-dimensional graduation caps.  Caps? Yes.  Schweitzer has a special tradition to commemorate the celebration of earning each degree, which is creating his graduation cap as a work of art that reflects his experiences and tells a story.    Schweitzer shared his inspiration behind the cap featured here, which he created for his sixth degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art.   “I taught a Hazardous Materials...

By Alexa Baumberger, Editor, Arts and Entertainment

December 5, 2022 • No Comments

A seasonal favorite event in the Akron community, the [email protected] Holiday Shop is returning from a pandemic pause just in time for holiday gifting season.   The University of Akron Mary Schiller Myers School of Art presents the [email protected] Holiday Shop 2022 on Wednesday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday, Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.   [email protected] Holiday Shop will be held in the Folk Hall atrium and projects galleries of Emily Davis Gallery, which is located inside Folk Hall at 150 E. Exchange St....

By Lauren Folk, Copy Editor

February 19, 2023 • No Comments

This poem appeared in the Fall 2022 magazine print edition. Grab your copy on campus today.

By Emily Price, Copy Editor

November 23, 2022 • No Comments

Love to read or write? Check out the University of Akron Press holiday book sale on Monday, Nov. 28,  from 12 – 3 p.m. With a variety of titles available, interested students and staff alike can select their favorite genres. “Books from the University of Akron Press, especially the poetry collections, put student writers in touch with works that represent the eclectic contemporary literary landscape,” Dr. Mary Biddinger, professor and interim chair of the English Department, said. The Akron Series in Poetry...

By Alexa Baumberger, Correspondent

December 22, 2022 • No Comments

During a 2018 scholarship competition, University of Akron horn player Jordin Andrews noticed his body trembling.   What would follow was nearly a year of frustration and questions after medicine prescribed by his doctor failed to stop his tremors.   On January 18, 2019, Andrews received a diagnosis. He had a tumor approximately the size of a ripe peach on his Thalamus, the area of the brain responsible for movement.   His biggest fear? No longer being able to pursue a career in music.   Jordin Andrews...

By Savannah Johns and Owen Pinion, Managing Editor and Contributor

December 11, 2022 • No Comments

Akron’s #1 for Nonstop Hits, WZIP, has changed the lives of many students and alumni for decades – six decades to be exact. The station celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2022.   Since 1962, The University of Akron has been home to a radio station operated by current students.   When the station was first founded, it operated under the call sign “WAUP” which stands for Akron University Programs (A call sign refers to the number code that all radio stations use for identification).   The broadcast...

By Liv Ream, Film Critic

March 10, 2023 • No Comments

Elvis: Listen, I love a good biopic more than anyone. Who doesn’t love a feel-good, rags-to-riches story? I have no interest in digging through the darker side of Elvis’s story and clearly, neither did director Baz Luhrman. So, what do you do when you want to shill a technically historically-based biopic? You rewrite a few minor details. Speaking of minors, no one cares if his first wife was 14 when meeting the 24-year-old famous rock star. Before you say that underage girls were more of a pattern than a preference...

By Stephanie Musarra, Contributor

March 6, 2023 • No Comments

"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four” will be airing on March 8, 2023, at the Jean Hower Taber Student Union from 7 – 9 P.M.   This film is about a shocking example of discrimination shown toward the LGBTQ community in 1995. The screening of this documentary is free and open to the public.  Four Latino women who identified as lesbians were accused of sexually abusing two children.   They spent fifteen years in prison. They were finally freed in 2016 with the help of the Texas Innocence...

By Savannah Johns , Correspondent

March 1, 2022 • No Comments

St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday long celebrated with feasts and Christian services, began in Ireland and honored St. Patrick, one of Ireland’s patron saints. However, it has evolved into a more secular celebration of Irish culture in the United States. For hundreds of years, March 17 has been a day where people gather to drink, party and wear green.   Akron’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations have been affected by COVID-19 over the past few years. Nevertheless, there are still ways to get out into the community...

By Mckenzie Uhrig, Arts & Entertainment Editor

November 10, 2021 • No Comments

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (RHPS) is a cult classic among its’ loyal fans, the comedy-horror musical is a tribute to B-horror movies and science fiction. Starring Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, and Susan Sarandon, the movie focuses on a young couple, Janet Weiss, and Brad Majors (Sarandon and Bostwick), and their night in a strange castle after their car breaks down. They soon discover their strange hosts, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Curry), are aliens who flaunt society’s sexual inhibitions and are working on creating...

By Stephanie Musarra , Contributor

February 19, 2023 • No Comments

New Year’s in Western culture is celebrated Dec. 31 to Jan.1 to ring in the new year. Usually, people join their families and friends for festivities including parties, countdowns, and new year’s resolutions. The timeline and traditions in Chinese culture differ from western culture. The Buchtelite reported from the Downtown Akron Partnership Lunar New Year 2023, which inspired this contributor to take a deeper look at the holiday. According to Akron Public Schools Mandarin Chinese teacher, Qing Liang,...

By Camryn Moore, Contributor

January 27, 2023 • No Comments

The Lunar New Year, traditionally observed in Chinese culture, is being celebrated by families and organizations throughout the Akron Community. Students at the University of Akron kicked off the Lunar New Year on Monday, Jan. 23 with a diversity event held by Zips Programming Network (ZPN). But Akron-area celebrations aren’t done yet.   On Saturday, Jan. 28 from 4:30 – 8:00 p.m., Downtown Akron Partnerships (DAP) is hosting a Lunar New Year Celebration at the Akron Civic Theater located at 182 South...

By Hannah Wines, Managing Editor

March 2, 2023 • No Comments

At the beginning of the year, various TikTok users started sharing videos of products that were not "worth the hype" or were not worth spending money on.    This trend started on an incline when TikTok user Mikayla Nogueira posted a paid partnership with L'Oréal Paris, advertising their new Telescopic Lift mascara. In this video, it was alleged that she had applied false eyelashes for the "after" effect.    This started a slew of videos with users noting that the trust between influencers and their audiences...

By Abigail Geiser , Correspondent

April 11, 2022 • No Comments

Travis Howe of Fat T’s Cookies says the business started as a “side hustle,” but has since become much more.