TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 15, 2014
The Statement magazine explores showbiz at the ‘U’
(c) The Michigan Daily
Magazine Editor: Carlina Duan
Features
Go blue, go Hollywood: The ‘u’ takes a new approach to Tinsel Town
Photo by Ruby wallau
Here at the University, it’s Screen Arts & Cultures, which isn’t the same as majoring in film. You’d be hard pressed to find a kid reeling film stock or splicing and mending together single frames from a filmstrip. But screen arts? It’s a combination of practice and theory, and it’s a field that is very much alive.
Curtain call: Life after theatre school
illustration by Ruby wallau
The culture of theatre school is a lot like the harsh realities that face actors and actresses after graduation. But does that mean that actors and actresses are ready to face professional challenges by the time graduation rolls around?
Columns
by Carlina duan
The writer’s notebook: Writing as a movement
Illustration by megan mulholland
At a very basic level, written language is performative. I read stop signs, and halt my car. I read class e-mails, and turn shit in.
by Mariam Sheikh
Famous By Association: Allow me to introduce myself
This column will be an outlet for those of you who would rather debate the mental state of Amanda Bynes over the case studies of Freud (Team Mandy ‘til the end).
Video
Daily Digest Ep. 1 – Chicken Spinach Sandwich and Garlic Baked Potatoes
Personal Statements
This week:
Personal Statement: Confessions of a procrastinator
To all of you who are able to sit down in front of a computer, block everything out, and finish an assignment days before the deadline: I envy you. And I’m trying to get on your level.
Illustration by megan mulholland
the archives:
what she left behind
In 1937, at age 25, my grandmother fled Peiping, China after the Japanese Invasion, escaping by foot, ox cart, boat and train, through cities in lockdown and bombed-out countryside, spurred by the fear of never reaching her final destination: Kansu district, China.
Why I quit skating
I don’t remember the moment I fell in love with figure skating, but I’m positive it wasn’t the moment I first stepped on the ice.
photo story
by LUNA ANNA ARCHEY
Langar — Anchor for a community
“The task is huge but don’t have any anxiety about it. We saw that at the temple. Don’t be stressed about it, come and have fun. That is the purpose.” That’s what Coordinator Prof. Jasprit Singh told the group of students as they planned the logistics of feeding 5,000 people.
thought bubble
“The movie that I saw that made me want to be a film maker is called ‘Boogie Nights.’ It is about the porn industry in the late ’70s, early ’80s … I really love it, it’s almost like a hallucinatory coming-of-age film because he’s porn star, which is kind of weird.”
“It was the first movie that I felt spoke to me and it made me think that I could achieve that sort of emotional intimacy and sincerity in a film and also have lots of fun stuff.”
— Kyle Weber , LSA junior