Eliza Calvin UML Student Imagine a metal box hurtling through the air in which you are trapped, surrounded by strangers. It is not a stretch, from that perspective, to see how my phobia of flying has translated into a fear of the O’Leary elevators. I could walk, and have, the many flights of stairs leading…
Composition Corner
here I’ll give tips and tricks to aspiring songwriters and composers. This week, I’ll be talking about solo instrument composition. In most cases, for example orchestral strings, wind instruments, bass instruments and voice, harmonic accompaniment isn’t available on your instrument. Composing something interesting and challenging is quite frankly a difficult task. In the Baroque era,…
Free At Last
Daniel Uk UML Student In the end, said Martin Luther King, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. For Silence is the obstacle in the midst of human progress, and the adversary of change. My community is in disarray and shouts for me in her time of…
Saving the music scene
Alexander Gentile UML Student Have you ever wondered where your favorite musical artists came from? Assuredly they one day picked up an instrument or decided to start singing in the shower, and thought to themselves, “I’m ready to give something to the world.” They spent years practicing, met other musicians that helped to develop a…
Snapchat: the evolution of communication. Really.
Shane Foley Connector Assistant Editor As time goes by, more and more people are finding different uses for Snapchat. Not only can we show friends scenes of the ridiculous events we witness daily, we also can instantly send important information, show our friends what we are having for breakfast, draw mustaches on our friends, and,…
Attention Senior Students
Chancellor’s Medal for Student Service (Deadline March 5, 2014 5:00PM) Have you made outstanding contributions to the University in clubs and organizations, campus programs, leadership position, or other activities that improved the quality of life for students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell? Chancellor’s Medal for Community Service (Deadline March 5, 2014 5:00PM) Have you made…
Do we really want a tobacco free campus?
Adam Leary UML Student There is a substantial desire in the Umass Lowell community to ban smoking on campus. We all know that smoking is harmful for both the smoker and those exposed to second hand smoke and it makes sense to try to get students to stop smoking. However, when we take a look…
Put. The Flappy Bird. Down.
Robert Shaffer UML Student “Flappy Bird is about pride. It’s about beating your friends’ scores.” Briefly looking up from yet another Game Over screen, this is what my amazing girlfriend of three years told me about the maddeningly simple, and frighteningly addictive, game Flappy Bird. My identical twin brother, also looking up from yet another…
