By Shawn Gakhal shawnonthetorch@gmail.com Facebook announced on Feb. 13 that it would add at least 56 custom gender options to its popular social networking website in the U.S. U.S. users can now choose from options such as “non-binary,” “gender questioning,” “two-spirit,” “androgynous” and “neither.” “People who select a custom gender will now have the ability…
By Shawn Gakhal shawnonthetorch@gmail.com Photos by Breanna Walsh I’m sure we’ve all been there — looking dapper as hell — while your date texts and nonchalantly asks, “When is the bill coming?” Your blood is rushing, and it’s not the good kind of rush. Trying to salvage the date is all but lost when he…
By Samantha Reid samonthetorch@gmail.com Forget cramming onto a crowded subway car or searching in vain for an available taxi. The newest way to get around Chicago comes wearing a pink moustache. With the process of acquiring the city medallion needed to become an authorized Chicago cab driver becoming more and more difficult, businesses like Uber…
By Samantha Reid samonthetorch@gmail.com Books “One More Thing” by BJ Novak You might know BJ Novak merely as Ryan from “The Office,” but the comedian actually got his start as a television writer and executive producer. With “One More Thing,” he makes the transition to book writing with 60 comedic short stories. For those without…
By Daniel Johanson rutorchnews@gmail.com CCPA’s Chamber Orchestra and Composition Professor Stacy Garrop are involved in an extensive artistic endeavor. The orchestra will perform two of her works, entitled “Thunderwalker” and “Shadow.” This allows the orchestra a very unique experience. Not only are they performing new music, but material that was conceived by someone they see…
By Samantha Reid samonthetorch@gmail.com Rutgers University has “Politicizing Beyonce.” Stanford University will teach you how to develop your own iPhone app. The George Washington University even offers a class in Japanese Swordsmanship. Roosevelt University may not be offering classes as unique as these, but the summer and fall course schedules offer a lot of variety.…
By Daniel Johanson rutorchnews@gmail.com This past weekend, the opera department at CCPA mounted its fully staged production of Gioachino Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims.” The performance featured all graduate voice students and the CCPA orchestra. The performance — as with many like it — took a lot of collaboration to come to reality. “I love…
By Hannah Kriss rutorchnews@gmail.com “Fake Your Death” Some people watch Some people pray But even lights can’t fade away. Some people hope Some people pay But why’d we have to stay? ‘Cause even here We’re scared to bruise Or any misery you choose You like to watch We like to use And we were born…
By Madelyn Olsen rutorchnews@gmail.com Tracey Scott WIlson’s “Buzzer” confronts issues that are typically shied away from in a “proper” social context, including issues of race, class, addiction and privilege. Actress Lee Stark stars as Suzy, a white school teacher who moves in with her boyfriend, a successful African American lawyer and — coincidentally — childhood…
By Courtney Clark rutorchnews@gmail.com Schoolboy Q released his newest album “Oxymoron” on Feb. 25, making it the newest album to be released from any member of the group Black Hippy, also composed of members Ab-soul, Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar. Although he proves he is an extremely dynamic rapper, it is a disappointing follow-up to…
By Latricia Wilson rutorchnews@gmail.com On the Roosevelt University website, the Board of Trustees page includes a list of names placed under the following categories: officers, public members and honorary trustees. In absence of any description of the trustees’ duties or what committees they are on, student trustees argue that the Board of Trustees has strong…
By Shawn Gakhal shawnonthetorch@gmail.com Striking for the first time in school history, hundreds of faculty members of the University of Illinois at Chicago stood outside in picket lines and campaigned for higher wages and long-term contracts on Feb. 18 and 19. The faculty negotiated with the university administration since last August for greater wages, according…
