Author: Writing Student
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FSC’s Leading Lady
By: Jaydon Mangiaracina Six plays. Four leads. Junior Chelsea Campbell strikes again in FSC Theatre Department’s “Spring Awakening.” “Spring Awakening” is a play about teenagers discovering their adolescent sexuality and how to navigate it. They experience different tragedies in the play such as domestic violence, suicide and death due to a failed abortion. The play…
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FSC Safety Department Enhances Student Communication with an Instagram Page
Ben Ruby An Instagram account was released by the FSC Department of Campus Safety and Security earlier this month in order to improve the communication between the department and the student body. “The goal is to share reliable, credible information to the Florida Southern student body in a timely manner.” -Sophie Grace Posick Sophie Grace…
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Alana McFadden: How the Simmons Center Director Found Her Calling
A couch in an office finds itself piled high with pillows while McFadden attempts to clean out the closet. Sun shines through the windows, illuminating her organized desk while some odd objects find themselves in a temporary home there. Between a shelf sparsely stocked with FSC memorabilia and an old filing cabinet is a compilation…
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Illuminating His Double Life
“There’s always something else you can learn.” Sometimes, all it takes is one small shift to create something bright, even a star for a musical backdrop. For over a decade, Ben Bratton has worked behind the scenes of shows in the realms of scenery, fly rails, and lighting. From a normal incandescent light bulb to…
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Philosophy Major At FSC: Balancing Academic Excellence and Campus Involvement
A passionate philosophy major at Florida Southern College, driven by a love for law and animal welfare, seeks to make a positive impact. Lorna Mary Truett, a vibrant and ambitious philosophy major at Florida Southern College, is a young woman with a deep passion for philosophy, law, and animal welfare. Hailing from a family that…
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News That Changed Bednarke’s Future
Jaydon Mangiaracina Sitting in the doctors office waiting for the news that can alter someone’s career with just one diagnosis, is something that some athletes have to face one day, for Chayse Bednarke it was sooner than she thought. “Everything I worked for all ended with one diagnosis, well for now,” Bednarke said. Softball had…
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FSC sophomore’s ode to family, theatre and Percy Jackson
It’s February 2024 and sophomore Liam Parke is walking with a friend on the way to his soundcheck for the closing weekend of performances for his first main stage Florida Southern College production, “Urinetown: the Musical.” They reach their destination‐the green room, an exposed room with a stone exterior at the end of an ominous…
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A Spring Awakening
The space between Sonya Dadekian and the stage felt charged, like the static clinging to an showtune record, waiting to unleash a long-forgotten sound. The music playback device hummed, filling every faint corner of the room in back of the theatre—an odd piece of furniture in this moment, a nod to precision, to accuracy, but…
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Bloom Shakalaka: Lakeland’s new destination for floral finds
Flower arrangements sitting in the middle of Bloom Shakalaka. | Photo by Julia Vorbeck
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From viewer to filmmaker: alum’s start-up videography business
Florida Southern College alum Blake Loughrey turned a passion into a business in the form of ABL3. Founded in December 2022, ABL3 aims to help people create high-quality content to promote themselves and their businesses. This is accomplished by recording content with clients, editing the content down for either short-form or long-form purposes and creating…