Author: Writing Student
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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…
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Otterbein University Football Player Pushes Through Adversity
Lain Copper has been playing football nearly his whole life and has faced several challenges on his journey to playing at the college level. Now 19 years old, Copper started playing football at the age of five in kindergarten and has played ever since. He grew up in Newark, Ohio, just about 40 minutes outside…
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FSC’s own set to sign a record label: Who is she?
Background Zoe Tibbs’ introduction to music first happened at 5 years old, in a very humorous fashion. “We had an organ and I would just bang on it all day, so my parents got me piano lessons, and then shortly after that put me in theater lessons and singing lessons, all because I banged on…
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Falling in Love with the Grind: Dr. Martin’s Path to Higher Education
For Dr. Jeremy Martin, the path to higher education wasn’t a straight line. In fact, itstarted with 297 handwritten letters and a passion for coaching. Martin, newly appointed 18th President of Florida Southern College, began his career in higher education in an unexpected place — on the basketball court. Martin recalled that there were pivotal…