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(05/21/13 6:44pm)
The path to college is becoming increasingly competitive, but high school students and their parents can now receive some much-needed navigation as ASU introduces its Future Sun Devil Families program.
(05/21/13 6:16pm)
Try as they may, ASU officials cannot seem to escape the party school image.
(04/29/13 4:18am)
Few of life’s tangibles truly last a lifetime.
(04/17/13 12:00pm)
For most incoming ASU students, it’s a rite of passage: graduate high school, move out of mom and dad’s house and find a way to get drunk.
(04/03/13 8:40pm)
This is part three of three in the series, Assessing Aramark.
(04/03/13 8:39pm)
This is part two of three in the series, Assessing Aramark.
(04/03/13 8:37pm)
This is part one of three in the series, Assessing Aramark.
(04/03/13 8:00pm)
In 2011, ASU made the decision to extend the food service contract for the Memorial Union and the dining halls to Aramark until at least 2024.
As students, professors and administrators attempt to define and develop a sustainable food system with Aramark, there seems to be no clear consensus.
As ASU moves forward in its sustainability efforts, questions are being raised about its long-term partnership with international food service conglomerate Aramark, a company that has been suspected of “greenwashing.”
Many of the nation’s universities operate their dining halls themselves, including Pennsylvania State University and University of Texas at Austin, and find it easier to manage sustainable and community-aware dining programs.
Sustainability in food can be difficult, but the ASU Sustainable Food Task Force, a group of administrators, professors and students, are charged with the task of “developing an institutional food policy that expresses the priorities of students, faculty and staff," according to the group’s statement of values.
Story by Nicholas Palomino Mendoza
Photos by Ana Ramirez
(04/02/13 12:45am)
It’s almost time for another scorching summer in the Valley, but with winter arriving in Westeros, taking refuge in front of the television will be a rewarding summertime prospect.
(03/05/13 5:00am)
Visions of vegetarian stirfry swirled through my thoughts as I was riding my bicycle to the grocery store. Oblivious to the world, I swerved into the street when suddenly, a revving engine ripped me from my refreshing rapt, and the driver of a pickup truck yelled, “Getout of the road, hipster!”
(03/05/13 12:48am)
The Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner determined ASU student Jack Culolias’s death to be accidental late last week, office spokeswoman Marion Pearson said.Pearson said Culolias's death was caused by asphyxia, drowning in settings of acute ethanol intoxication and probable hypothermia.This ruling comes more than three months after the 19-year-old Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge’s body was found in Tempe Town Lake. Culolias was last seen leaving a fraternity event held at the Cadillac Ranch Bar and Grill in the Tempe Marketplace. Reach the reporter at npmendo@asu.edu or follow him @npmendoza
(01/31/13 10:26pm)
Pitchforks: 1.5/5Season Premiere: Jan. 30. Last Wednesday’s season finale of "American Horror Story: Asylum" left FX, as well as TV lovers nationwide, with a gaping hole in their Wednesday primetime schedules.
The network was probably over optimistic in hoping to adequately fill these large and bizarre shoes with its new cold war era spy thriller, "The Americans," which lies somewhere between stodgy and stimulating in the purgatory of television mediocrity.
Set in 1981, "The Americans" explores the family dynamics of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys), married Soviet KGB spies with two children living in plain sight in suburban Virginia and posing as average, boring, middle-class Americans.
This portrait of everyday Americans, who work as travel agents (ask your parents) and take their children to the local mall, is juxtaposed against the shadowy, secret lives of pre-internet spies who rely on cold drops, payphones and cassette tape recorders to perform their craft.
The show's executive producer, ex-CIA agent, Joseph Weisberg told Time magazine that he and the show’s other creators wanted it to be “a show about a marriage, more than espionage, that shows how, even under the craziest circumstances, the marriage still looks and feels like any other marriage.”
This is where they botched the formula for making an interesting television show, because people who watch television are already married and living boring middle class lives. They would much rather tune in to watch the lives of spies, than see a marriage that, in many ways, mirrors the one they come home to every evening.
The reason behind focusing on the family dynamic is unclear, but if the show’s creators were attempting to make the viewer sympathize with Keri Russell’s calloused and calculated character, they failed.
For starters, she is a Russian spy trying to sabotage America on American soil. This is not exactly an easy archetype to sympathize with.
To compound the problem, she, unlike her husband, does not seem at all torn between the allegiance to her children and her allegiance to her country.
She is all about doing what is best for mother Russia and, upon arriving in America, she “sees weakness in the people.”In the show’s first five minutes, we find her deceitfully two-timing her husband, whose character is also unlikeable in that he is indecisive and submissive to the point that he seems spineless.Elizabeth’s infidelity is, of course, in the name of espionage (and probably to add to the show’s sex appeal), but it still doesn’t make the viewer any more sympathetic toward her.At the same time, her stiff rejections to her husband’s sexual advances begin early and continue throughout the episode and she only relents to his desires in the wake of disposing of a body, adding to her cold-blooded and, some might say, sadistic demeanor.One can’t help but draw comparisons between "The Americans" and Showtime’s Emmy award winning spy thriller "Homeland," due to an almost identical concept and the presence of another familiar female TV lead, Clare Danes."The Americans" is "Homeland" light, set 30 years before, with “KGB officer” substituted for “Muslim terrorist.”And a tired Keri Russell doing her best to convince the viewer that she is no longer Felicity, is a far cry from a revived Clare Danes actually convincing the viewer that she is no longer Angela Chase.Meanwhile, the supporting cast of The Americans adds to the show’s uninspired air with mundane and forgettable performances all around.The direction and cinematography do nothing to add to the show’s attempt at creating dramatic tension and the fight scenes and stunts are, at best, unconvincing.The show’s crowning moment comes in the form of music, costume and set design, which give it an authentic 1980’s feel. Unfortunately, it isn’t even close to enough to save it from being mid-season, channel-changing fodder."The Americans" would have undoubtedly been better off as a show more about espionage than marriage, but even then, it probably would have fallen well short of compelling.Reach the reporter at npmendo@asu.edu.
(01/31/13 12:00am)
(01/10/13 12:00am)
After more than two weeks of uncertainty and torment, his stepmother Renae Culolias, along with his family and friends, finally received a bit of closure far more bitter than it was sweet.
(12/10/12 11:48pm)
On the brink of stressful study sessions and exhaustive final exams, many students looking for a cognitive edge seek prescription pills to get their cramming fix.
(12/09/12 10:45pm)
Students and faculty are preparing for the shortest winter break in 10 years.
(12/06/12 12:06am)
Many students are running on empty as the semester winds down, but daily course and instructor evaluation reminders are keeping inboxes full.
(12/02/12 10:30pm)
Artists and craftspeople from around the country invaded Mill Avenue this weekend, selling everything from artsy screen-prints to custom screen doors to crafts for critters to colorful kaleidoscopes at the Tempe Festival of the Arts.
(11/28/12 11:54pm)
Tempe Police cold case detectives are re-examining the rape and murder of an ASU student in hopes of unearthing evidence that could lead to the arrest of a killer who has eluded them for more than 15 years.
(11/25/12 11:00pm)
Researchers at the Global Institute of Sustainability predict the urban heat island effect will have more repercussions on rising temperatures in the Valley in the coming decades than global warming will.