Day: February 17, 2015

Campus, Editorial, Opinions

Changing the world one leaf at a time

Meagan Falcon

The acronym THC may be familiar to some, but what about CBD? For those who don’t know, THC stands for tetrahydrocannabinol, one of the active ingredients in marijuana, or the one that gets you “high.” CBD, cannabidiol, is the other ingredient. Unlike THC, CBD does not have the same effect on the body or mind. Instead, it can actually treat people suffering from pediatric epilepsy, autism, cancer, pain, PTSD, brain injuries, anxiety and various neurological conditions, according to doseofnature.com. So why is this not being administered to the people who so obviously need it? It is because its partner is…

Opinions

Ephemeral news proves it can also be quality news

Meagan Falcon

  Lexy Garcia Reporter Snapchat, a massive social media platform, recently introduced an important update to its app — the ability to browse news stories. As users of Snapchat are generally ages 13-25, you may have begun to familiarize yourself with the different types of news coverage that this new feature provides. Essentially, you’ve been “added” by some of the country’s most popular media companies and given easy access to their daily updated content. Keeping with the style of a Snapchat “story,” the content is only available 24 hours, and can be skipped through or entirely ignored. The user decides…

Sports

Join the challenge, all 100 grueling miles of it

Meagan Falcon

  Vivien Sanchez Editor-in-chief The good news: The 100 Mile Challenge is in full swing. The not-so-good news: We’ve proven that journalists and math aren’t the best off friends, as we grossly miscalculated our goal for this semester in our last issue. As a team we would love to entertain the idea of completing 15,000 miles, but realistically, some of us want to survive to see graduation in May. After redoing the math, we are relieved to be aiming for a more practical goal of 1,500 miles. With 15 people originally intending to take part in the challenge, each would…

Entertainment

Unity 3D lets gamers create

Meagan Falcon

  Victor Rhodes Reporter Unity 3D is unlike any video game engine I have seen. Many previous engines have tried to capture eager game designers’ attention, but most failed or were not engaging enough. Unity Technologies manages to sway millions of new and veteran customers with its Unity 3D engine. The tool is cross platform and mainly used for game development. Unity offers many features such as rendering, a built-in editor, support of third-party assets, 2D game development and real-time editing. New customers can also publish their game on various platforms such as PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Nintendo Wii…

Entertainment

‘Jupiter Ascending’ more like ‘Jupiter Descending’

Meagan Falcon

Meagan Falcon Web editor I didn’t believe “Jupiter Ascending” was as bad as early reviews indicated, but I was so wrong. Written and directed by the Wachowskis, the siblings behind “The Matrix,” “Jupiter” is so bad that it made me want never to go out to the movies again. I left that theater so confused that I swear having a conversation with Jaden Smith would have made more sense to me than the entire movie’s purpose to entertain me. For starters, why did Eddie Redmayne’s character have to be a badly portrayed version of Vito Corleone from “The Godfather” and…