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SAUDI STUDENT ASSOCIATION ELECTS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT
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Malak Almunyify stands as the first female president for University of Or-egon’s Saudi Student Association.
“I am the first woman to be a leader in Eugene, but I am not the first woman to be a leader,” Almunyify said. “Women being leaders is not new.”
In the beginning of the school year, the SSA conducted a formal celebra-tion for the National Day for Saudi Arabia with 150 people and gifts provided for children.
“The goal was to show Americans, and everyone, our culture,” Almunyify said.
Abdulrhman “AJ” Aljaafari, previous SSA President and current EMU Board of Directors member, said when he was president he had a female vice presi-dent, who he attributes many of his successes to.
“Culture plays a huge role in both men and women understanding,” Aljaafari said. “There is a council similar to congress in Saudi Arabia, and, for the past five years, there has been a woman in that council and that’s a huge deal for women.”
Saudi Arabia has been making progress as well. A recent election of women into the municipal councils as well as the 130,000 women who are now regis-tered to vote are signs of this advancement .
“It’s very important for women to see themselves as leaders. It is impor-tant to have both males and females to change misconceptions about Saudis” Aljaafari said.
Fahma Mohammed, former Muslim Student Association board member, said the way Americans see Muslims is based off extremists reported by the media.
“I honestly blame not only the individuals, [but also] the media for how
Americans see Muslims.” Mohammed said.Mohammed said she acknowledges the growth that Muslims have
achieved regarding the value of women, which is in contrast to what many Americans believe.
“Back in the day, men knew what roles they had, and women knew what they had to do for the family, and it was very separate,” Mohammed said. “Now, men grow up and they have the value of women taught to them. It’s this very equal understanding that just because I am a woman, I don’t have to be put down.”
Aljaafari said he suggested the idea of presidency to Almunyify and she was very surprised. However, Almunyify said she grew excited about the idea and her family supported her.
“When I first thought about being president, I called my brother and my family and they were very supportive of it and called me every day,” Almunyify said. “Family might be the most important and all of my friends are like my family. Men and women alike, we are a family to create a good environment here for all Saudi students and international students.”
Almunyify said she plans to create more of a community between all of the international groups, as there is a noticeable separation between them.
“International student groups are all kind of isolated by themselves, Saudis by themselves and Arabs by themselves. It’s important for the UO community to be as unified as possible despite the culture and backgrounds,” Aljaafari said. “I know [Almunyify] will represent the community very well.”
Almunyify said she is focused on not only giving women a voice, but also making the community feel satisfied.
“We just want people to be happy,” Almunyify said.
Malak Almunyify is now the first female president of the Saudi Student Association at the UO.
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ASUO executives created the campus safety campaign in the wake of the Umpqua Com-muThe executive officers of ASUO created a new radio show on KWVA in order to increase awareness of the different campus-related is-sues, campaigns the organization started and help give student groups a platform to speak to the student body. ASUO Internal Vice President Claire Johnson said that the show’s primary goal is to help build a connection between ASUO and students because students often feel disconnected from the organization.
“[Students] think of [ASUO] as a separate entity that they can’t really communicate with. We created [the radio show] so people can become more involved with ASUO,” Johnson said.
The program airs every Thursday at 7 p.m. on 88.1 KWVA.
ASUO executives created the campus safety campaign in the wake of the Umpqua Com-munity College shooting, ASUO Director of Staff Casey Edwards said. ASUO organized a forum addressing student concerns regarding the uni-versity’s lack of school-wide safety initiatives.
“After UCC, that was a moment where you realize something immediate needs to be done,” Edwards said.
ASUO also started a tuition affordability campaign to help students understand how a guaranteed tuition plan being proposed by the administration may affect them. ASUO has organized two forums, the first was held on Oct. 28 and the other on Nov. 13, to let students voice their concerns and help the administration un-derstand where students stand on the plan.
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senators and asuo executives have both settled into their roles as the fall term con-cluded. each had their own successes and challenges. here’s a look at a few of the
major moments of the term.
Senate was put under pressure by the Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian student group, on Nov. 11 when the Senate denied the group’s $950 request for a poker night where attendees had a chance to win firearms. The group returned on Nov. 18 claiming that the senate violated viewpoint neutrality and sought reimbursement for a donor who gave them the money for the event. Senate denied the request and the uni-versity decided not to act on the allegation of viewpoint discrimination. Senate Vice Presi-dent Quinn Haaga said that members did a good job maintaining viewpoint neutrality given the nature of the request.
Senate members are working on a resolu-tion to possibly halt the expansion of new fraternity and sorority chapters after find-ings in a recent climate survey indicated that students involved in Greek life still face significantly higher rates of sexual assault than those who are not involved. Haaga says that the Senate will wait for the results of an external review before continuing action with the resolution.
Senators repealed a resolution that pre-vented student groups from requesting funds for off-campus retreats on Nov. 4. Haaga says the senate reversed its initial decision because retreats provide opportunities that cannot be found on campus.
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The 2016 Valero Alamo Bowl was a gut-wrenching tale of two polar-opposite halves. The Oregon Ducks had racked up 376 yards of offense and led the TCU Horned Frogs 31-0 at halftime. In the second half, they gave up 31 points, scored none and amassed just 19 yards on 18 offensive plays.
At the end of triple-overtime, the Ducks lost 47-41.
“A lot of guys got comfortable, and just put it in cruise control,” defensive back Charles Nelson said. “You just can’t do that in a game like this.”
The Ducks looked like a completely different team in the second half, in large part because quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. — whose presence on the field has been directly correlated with their success — was in street clothes on the sidelines. Adams, who sustained a brutal helmet-to-helmet hit just before the end of the second quarter, was es-corted to the locker room and did not return to action.
Back-up quarterback Jeff Lockie replaced him, and couldn’t get a thing going offensively. The last time Lockie saw significant playing time was against Washington State on Oct. 10, when Adams was out with a broken finger and the Ducks blew a fourth quarter lead and fell 45-38, also in triple-overtime.
Lockie received numerous low snaps from center Doug Brenner, who replaced starting center Matt Hegarty after Hegarty also sustained a game-ending injury. The low-snaps weren’t the result of a miscommunication on his or Lockie’s part — they were “just low,” Brenner said.
Several of the snaps Lockie received hit the ground, including one that initially appeared to have resulted in a long touchdown to wide receiver Dar-ren Carrington on a slant route. But as Lockie bent down to pick up the ball, his knee touched the ground, and the play was ruled dead, wiping the touch-down off the board.
Lockie also dropped a crucial snap on third down in the third overtime period — the ball was low, but it went through his hands and hit him in the stomach — and he took a sack. The
next play he threw an incomplete pass that ended the game and sealed TCU’s miraculous comeback.
“It’s my responsibility to catch the ball,” Lockie said. “Sometimes that happens, and I just need to do a better job.”
Adams and Hegarty were both graduate transfers for the Ducks this season, and the utter incompetence of their back-ups is a frightening look ahead to next season. Oregon has another graduate transfer quarterback, Dakota Prukop from Montana State, committed to play his final year of eligibility for Oregon in 2016, but the fact that depth was so thin this season is troubling.
“We need to improve our depth,” defensive coordinator Don Pellum said. “We need to be able to go longer and deeper.”
Despite Lockie’s blatant struggles, head coach Mark Helfrich didn’t consider a quarterback change in the second half.
“There weren’t a ton of options there available,” Helfrich said. “Cer-tainly you want quality depth, and [the quarterback] position is absolutely at a premium.”
Including Prukop, the Ducks could potentially have many quarterbacks competing for the starting job next year. Lockie, walk-on Taylor Alie, for-mer four-star recruit Morgan Mahalak and redshirt freshman Travis Jonsen are all expected to return to the roster. Additionally, high school recruits Terry Wilson, Justin Herbert and Tristen Wallace could enter the competition.
Oregon has not had much luck developing its recent quarterback recruits, however, so a broader com-petition does not necessarily imply future success. During the three and a half regular season games Adams sat out due to injury this year, the Ducks played downright poor football. They got trounced by Utah and stunned by Washington State at home, and barely threw the ball against Georgia State and Colorado — the games they won.
Helfrich said he has confidence in all his quarterbacks, but he may be the only one.
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UOPD assistant chief tentatively chosen
The University of Oregon Police Department has selected a preferred candidate for the new assistant chief position. Upon successful comple-tion of the background check, Police Captain Chou Her of the University of California Merced Police Department is expected to be hired.
“I have spoken with the chief there, and she has offered me the position,” Her said.
UOPD did not confirm this. Kelly McIver, head of communications for UOPD, said, “Obviously, when a hir-ing department communicates with a candidate who will be moved to the background phase, it is clear that the intention would be to offer employ-ment with satisfactory completion of the remaining requirements, so I un-derstand how Lt. Her would express it that way. It is a technicality that an of-ficial offer of employment is not made until the background is completed and accepted.”
Her is the only candidate who has progressed to this phase of the hiring process.
UOPD hasn’t had an assistant chief since 2012. Chief Carolyn McDermed was the last person to hold the posi-tion, and it was not refilled when Mc-Dermed was promoted to chief. The position was revived this year after Captain Pete Deshpande retired.
The assistant chief will help Mc-Dermed cultivate relationships with the community on and off campus, oversee internal and external op-erations and take over command of the department when McDermed is unavailable.
“I’m looking for someone who’s open minded, has a commitment to diversity, is motivated to move the department forward in our current transition,” McDermed said. “Someone who can really lead by example in our department and be a role model for our officers.”
From March to August, Her served as the UC Merced Police Depart-ment’s interim police chief. Before his position at the university, Her worked at various law enforcement agen-cies in the area, including the Merced County Sheriff’s Department.
Her was born in Laos, and his family moved to Portland when he was three years old. From there, they moved down to Merced, a place Her has called home since. He is fluent in both English and Hmong.
Her first visited campus last Oc-tober. “My first glimpse of the area was something I was very, very happy with,” Her said. “Touching down at the airport, seeing the town as I’m driving in, I was very much in love with it.”
During his visit Her gave a talk on campus about his policing philoso-phy. He is an advocate for community policing, a style of law enforcement that focuses on making connec-tions within the community the department serves.
“I’m a big firm believer in com-munity policing,” Her said. “If you’re just there simply providing a service and interacting with people, that’s not community policing. Community policing is truly getting down to the nuts and bolts of interacting with people and being part of the town. From what I’ve seen of what UO is, there’s a lot of opportunities to do those things.”
Her has had the UC Merced Police Department make appearances at athletic events and even march in the town parade.
University police departments differ from city departments in size and scope of their work. University departments are able to mingle more and really get to know members of the campus community, Her said. At his speech in October, Her told the audience, “Officers can be more than that guy who gave you a ticket.”
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There is one movie that has captured the creative imagination of the world this week — one that harkens back to a feeling of awe-inspiring nostalgia that has eluded us since childhood. This movie’s young hero faces an internal crisis and must decide which side of the force to pick: the FBI or the Robin Hood-style super-athlete thieves who have granted him a path to spiritual enlightenment.
In what is now a grossly tired Hol-lywood practice, the 1991 cult-classic Point Break has received the remake treatment, trading in simplified bank robberies for adrenaline-fueled stunts and high-stakes heists.
The action begins with Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) riding a motor-cycle across the top of a mountain path. Following an accident at the end of the ride, Utah decides to quit extreme motorcycle riding to join the FBI.
He lands his first case by discover-ing the secret motive behind a group of daring bandits. They plan to con-tinue their robberies by completing the “Ozaki Eight” – a series of death defying stunts which, if completed, will allow spiritual nirvana by con-quering all of the forces of nature.
After each robbery, the group, sometimes disguised by masks of U.S. presidents, performs a stunt and gives the profits to the less fortunate, much like Robin Hood.
Utah intercepts the group when he discovers 80-feet-tall waves ap-proaching a location in the middle of
the ocean. Sure enough, the group is there and cautiously takes a liking to Utah after their third daring robbery.
As you might expect from the original film, Utah is accepted by the group, and he happens to be able to accomplish the death-defying “Ozaki Eight” challenges that the bandits are out to complete — with no train-ing, of course. A budding bromance between Bodhi (the leader of the thieves, played by Édgar Ramírez) and Utah is born; Utah must decide what is more important: the bond of brotherhood or the FBI mission he is set to complete.
There are multiple connections to the original, but it is by no means a shot-for-shot redo. It is a remake that emphasizes the sport aspect of the bandits and deals much less with the robberies. The bonding takes center-stage alongside base jumps and skydives. It keeps all the classic Point Break tropes while updating the stunts from simply surfing, to a conquering of nature’s powers as an environmental message.
Point Break is, without a doubt, better than advertised. The stunts are visually stimulating enough to entice the viewer to forgive the shortcom-ings of the script and ignore the fact that they should all die on every attempted “Ozaki Eight” outing and robbery. But that’s to be expected in a world that relies on over-the-top remakes to drive profit. Watch it ex-pecting to be entertained, and it will accomplish the job. Asking for any-thing more is asking for too much.
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“An evil spirit is abroad in this land--not only here, but
everywhere. It tramples down the law of the country and
fosters riot and anarchy.”These are the words of
Matthew Deady in 1886, Oregon’s first federal judge and the namesake of the University of Oregon’s
first building, Deady Hall. In this quote, Deady is talking about the rampant 19th century racism toward Chinese people in Oregon. But Deady was a member of The Secret Knights of the Golden Circle, an earlier version of the Ku Klux Klan.
All UO buildings, including Deady Hall, related to the KKK are
to be renamed by fall 2016. This is only one request out of 12 on the UO Black Student Task Force’s letter to the administration, written on Nov. 17 in part response to the protests at the University of Missouri.
Across the nation the renaming
of racism-related university buildings is leading in the Black Lives Matter movement, including Princeton University and Duke University.
At a Nov. 20 event leading in a discussion on racial equity, UO President Michael Schill said the administration’s first step in addressing the list of demands will be to change the names of buildings with racist roots.
Two of the buildings named by Schill at the event were Deady Hall and Dunn Hall, a segment of the Hamilton residence hall.
At the Dec. 4 Board of Trustees meeting, alumnus Scott Bartlett asked the board not to change the name of Deady Hall, specifically because Deady “fought like hell” for the lives of Chinese people in Oregon. Deady protected Chinese-American rights, specifically when he summoned a grand jury to indict anti-Chinese protesters for violent acts.
“[The] history of this beautiful institution has deep roots,” Bartlett said. “His legacy — Deady’s legacy— has to count for something.”
Dunn Hall is named after Frederick Dunn, UO Latin professor and chairman of the Latin Department from 1898 to 1935. Dunn was reportedly the leader of Eugene’s branch of the KKK, according to Associated Press.
Right here in the Eugene community, Jenoge Khatter, a United States history teacher at Roosevelt Middle School and UO doctoral candidate, has pushed for renaming the school this year. There are plans to tear the building down, making this a good opportunity to rename it, Khatter said.
The school is named after former United States president Theodore Roosevelt, who was also known as a white supremacist and imperialist. Khatter said African-American poet Maya Angelou is a more than suitable namesake for the new building, as Angelou’s values reflect the community’s.
“It’s important that public buildings should reflect the diversity of people they serve with their names in terms of gender, race and linguistic representation,” Khatter said. “Names are inherently political, as they reflect some narratives but not others.”
Khatter said it is important to recognize when an organization like UO or the Eugene School District is symbolically amplifying or silencing narratives through names.
Schill said the growing activism at UO has brought administrative focus to
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diversity in and outside of the classroom. But he is careful with his promises.
“We really feel our students want to see progress on this,” Schill said. “I haven’t promised what [else] we are going to do on the list, but most things are reasonable.”
But at a roundtable with black students and Board of Trustees members on Dec. 4, Jaleel Reed, a BSTF member, said the task force expects UO administration to address each of the 12 demands. The sixth demand, highlighted during the conversation, asks UO to “commit to hiring an African-American advisor/retention specialist as well as Black faculty across all academic disciplines.”
“This demand is of particular importance because the number of black faculty, as well as the number of black students at this institution, are integral to making this institution an environment where black students can succeed,” Reed said.
What the UO’s commitment looks like is acknowledging that minority communities’ needs are a priority, Reed said. The BSTF feels it’s necessary to have a written,
tangible commitment of funds toward addressing the needs of black students.
Brown University, which has committed at least $100 million to meeting diverse needs, is an example of a university that has made an effort to address the needs and concerns of students of color, Reed said.
“A comparable commitment has not yet been made at the University of Oregon,” Reed said. “As it pertains to our demands, we know that it is possible for private donors to contribute funds to assist in covering costs.”
The conversation around the breakfast table regarding the change of KKK-related building names only lasted for about two minutes: black students put more emphasis on the other parts of their letter.
“I shouldn’t feel like [by] going to classes, I am being a burden,” Denisa Clayton, another BSTF member, said.
Trustee Ann Curry said a young woman she talked to at the breakfast told her the first time she knew she was black was when she arrived at UO.
“One percent [faculty of color at UO] does not represent what we have here in Oregon,”
Curry said. She said based on national numbers, UO should have 12 percent faculty of color.
Trustee Kurt Willcox said the lack of diversity has been a problem ever since he was at UO in the 1960s.
“It’s a terrible situation that this all still exists years later,” Willcox said.
The renaming of KKK-affiliated buildings is set to be finished by the end of the year, but Schill said the administration might not be able to fulfill all of the BSTF’s requests.
As much preoccupation as there is about UO’s racist past, most black students who spoke out were concerned with UO’s racist present.
As a senior in the Oregon MBA program within the Lundquist College of Business, Patrice Bishop-Foster said she has been through several situations in the program that led to a shaming process both in the classroom and through emails.
“Above all else, we need people who care,” Bishop-Foster said, “because if you don’t care you’re not going to make any changes.”
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To say that Holly Arrow had a busy 2015 would be an understatement.
Arrow, 60, a professor at the University of Oregon’s psychology department, spoke at a con-ference on socially extended knowledge put on by the philosophy department at the University of Edinburgh.
In addition to speaking at the conference, she also contributed to a book that was an extension of the project.
Publishing new, relevant work makes Arrow no different than any other professor. What does make her unique is that she maintains an ultra-busy work week while also balancing the sched-ule of an Olympic weightlifter.
“It’s a challenge … Like anybody, you wanna get your exercise in any way,” Arrow said. “I try to train on the weekends. Just try and fit things around my schedule.”
Arrow competed at the International Weight-lifting Federation Masters World Cup in Dallas, Texas in August. She was entered in the 63kg masters weight class for women 60 and older.
At the World Cup, she completed a successful snatch of 47kg (105 pounds), a successful clean and jerk of 64kg (140 pounds) and placed first in her division. She set four world records in her category, and is one of just four American women to break a world record since 2014.
Her dominance on the national stage came just months after a trip to the US National Mas-ters Weightlifting Championships in Monrovia, California. There, she was placed first in the same
division and was pound-for-pound the strongest lifter at the competition.
Essentially, she is the best masters Olympic weightlifter in the world for her weight class and the best overall in the nation.
At an age where many people are physically limited and unable to perform routine daily tasks, Arrow is in peak physical shape; out-lifting com-petitors 20 years younger than her and throwing around bars that weigh nearly as much as she does on a daily basis.
It was a refusal to fall into a physically-limited lifestyle that launched Arrow’s Olympic lifting career.
Like many other successful lifters, Arrow was introduced to the sport through CrossFit. She began training at nearby Eugene CrossFit af-ter a trip to the doctor revealed that her bones were thinning and she was in the first stages of osteoporosis.
“My mother had broken a series of bones and she was on medication,” Arrow said. “I had myself tested and found my bones were thinning.”
She started CrossFit training in 2011 with the intention of building strength and began compet-ing in open competitions shortly after. Within 18 months of her introduction to the sport, she qualified for the Masters CrossFit Games, an event that is sponsored by Reebok and airs annu-ally on ESPN.
“When she first joined, she was just run down,” Eugene CrossFit owner and trainer Jeremy Steck-er said. “She liked to exercise, but she just had a
hard time staying healthy … She was just beat up and she wasn’t sure she could stay in there. We had to do a lot of scaling, a lot of modification to workouts.
“She’s just such a hard worker, and having that mindset is just the perfect mold for taking some-body to the next level of her fitness training.”
Arrow placed 8th overall at the 2012 games her first time competing — an incredible feat for some-body so new to the sport.
Arrow is obsessive when it comes to record-ing her workouts, and while patiently thumbing through a notebook that has workouts charted as far back as 2013, she explains that she averaged 11 workouts per-week in preparation for the 2014 CrossFit games.
Recently, Arrow has found a way to cultivate her two passions — fitness and teaching — and is now adding coaching to her repertoire. She coaches at Eugene CrossFit a few times each week and mainly works with a group of older women, many of whom have the same goal that she started with, to live healthy and independently.
Arrow gushes as she describes a recent client who spent the last 45 years sedentary, without any consistent method of exercise, and is now on the verge of completing a wall-ball toss with a four pound ball.
“I think that one of the things that I really like about being athletic at this age … is that I am the example to them,” Arrow said. “I’m kind of the demonstration that things don’t have to go down-hill; you can get strong again.”
Psychology professor Holly Arrow keeps two passions, teaching and Olympic weight lifting.
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tV shows
Rick and Morty is a perfect blend of science fiction, dark comedy and overly realistic dialogue that will command your attention from the moment you start watching. The show, created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, follows the adventures of an alcoholic scientist named Rick Sanchez and his awkward grandson Morty as they travel across the universe and to different dimensions having all sorts of strange encounters along the way. Even though the show takes place in a fictional universe, the main cast of characters is unexpectedly relatable and interesting to watch. The ratio of funny to serious is just right, with the majority of episodes being comprised of clever jokes and slapstick comedy, but ending with serious scenes that genuinely surprise you and make you question what you just watched. If you’re looking for a sci-fi show that is interesting but doesn’t take itself too seriously, Rick and Morty is for you.
emerald staffers pick their favorite tV shows from 2015, which featured many great shows, from the conclusion of ‘Mad Men’ and the introduction of ‘Better Call Saul’ on amc, to Netflix originals ‘Master of None’ and ‘Jessica Jones.’
Yes, Breaking Bad is over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t will it back into a small form of existence. Creator Vince Gilligan once again returns to the Breaking Bad universe, this time focusing on Jimmy McGill, the man who will one day become Walter White and Jesse Pinkman’s crooked lawyer, Saul Goodman. The first episodes focus on his humble beginnings, as the underachieving younger brother to one of the top lawyers in the area. (“Slippin’ Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun!” his older brother decries.) The show does a great job of foreshadowing his arrival as the sleazy infomercial dwelling lawyer he will one day become, complete with characters from Breaking Bad, this leaves enough of a connection to Breaking Bad to cure the instant nostalgia we all crave, but also pushes the show forward to unexplored territories.
Aziz Ansari’s 10-chapter series is a remarkable assembly of talent. Its understated, comedic sensibility gives it the feeling of a program that doesn’t belong on Netflix, but a more irreverent network like IFC. Ansari plays Dev, a man-child living in New York City that gets by with tangential roles in films and commercial. His claim to fame is a Go-Gurt commercial. Each episode corresponds to a different element of adulthood with which Dev reckons — the Plan B pill, old people, mornings and parents. The particularly profound episode “Indians on TV” zeroes in on how white actors will often take on Indian roles; it’s both devastating and comic genius. Writing credits go to Ansari, co-creator Alan Yang and a third Parks and Rec alum, the late Harris Wittels. The directorial talent matches the writing talent, with directors including Tim & Eric’s Eric Wareheim and indie-film director Lynn Shelton.
When two dysfunctional, awful people get together it’s never a good sign, but You’re The Worst makes it work, and it works really, really well. 2015 marked the second season in FXX’s anti-romantic sitcom that stars Aya Cash and Chris Geere as two self-destructive people who end up falling for each other in Los Angeles. While the first season merely set up its characters, the fantastic second season delves deep into each characters’ motivations and personal problems. It came out as a detailed, powerful look at clinical depression and how it plays into modern relationships. The show definitely has humor, but its heart shines through because the characters’ problems are so very real.
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In 2014, two anthology detective series – True Detective and Fargo – became definitive releases for the genre. In 2015, the latter effectively proved to be the superior one. Fargo’s second season, a new story from the first go-around, rewinds to Minnesota and North Dakota in the 1970s. This season stars Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson and Nick Offerman. It retains much of what makes the show inimitably brilliant: a complex murder mystery, well-etched characters and countless peripheral, winking references to Coen Brothers’ films (not just the one that inspires the series’ title).
SundanceTV’s German-language miniseries follows Martin (played by Jonas Nay), a 24-year-old, sleepy-eyed worker for the East German military, who’s swept away to West Germany to serve as a spy under the West’s military. Upon being tossed across the Iron Curtain, Martin is taught how to adjust to life in the West and not blow his cover, how to properly be a spy and to adapt to the West’s lingo. The pacing and elegant visualization of Deutschland 83 is comparable to the likes of a Martin Scorsese production. Wunderbar!
The gentrification of South Park, Colorado set off a chain reaction that nobody saw coming. It’s been 19 seasons since we first met the foul-mouthed kids who court controversy like no other. And yet, the show pushed the envelope further this season; nothing is sacred in South Park. ISIS, the politically correct movement of 2015, Yelpers, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, Whole Foods, police brutality, guns, immigration and Jared from Subway all received the South Park treatment, leading to arguably the greatest single season in show history. Instead of mercilessly mocking the above categories, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone take an objective look at these issues and make the viewer decide what is right and wrong. The show that began with Eric Cartman receiving an alien anal probe has evolved into one of the most intelligent comedies on television and a force in social commentary, long after the time when most shows would have been cancelled.
The newest entry in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is a dark, almost disturbing show set in the seedy neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen. It marks a drastic shift in tone from the family-friendly Avengers movies with sex scenes, painful violence and psychological breakdowns. Not only is her story unique and compelling, but it features a strong female lead that was previously unheard of in the Marvel universe. She’s wickedly smart, she kicks ass and she has a killer, cynical sense of humor. Jessica Jones also has Marvel’s best villain yet: Kilgrave, a disturbed man with the power to control people’s thoughts and actions. His presence was everywhere, even when he wasn’t on screen. If Marvel’s Netflix shows continue on this track, they’ll definitely turn out better than the movies.
Rami Malek plays Elliot Anderson, a neurotic, messianic coding geek. His mental instability, evident from the first frames, is manifest in the narration as he speaks to the viewer, an imaginary character conceived in his head. This drives the show’s ambiguous reality, as it’s entirely told from Elliot’s point of view. Showrunner Sam Esmail’s program centers on Elliot, a cybersecurity worker by day, who’s recruited into an underground group of hackers who are planning to take down a large corporation and dissolve all student loan debt. Originally written as a feature-length film, the show’s cinematic writing and pacing is an intriguing draw; not a moment nor line of dialogue is wasted. Mr. Robot is an example of incredible storytelling on a network channel, when it could have easily landed on HBO or Showtime.
Showrunner Matthew Weiner guided his series to a graceful ending in 2015, even as AMC chose to split the final season across two Emmy seasons. Jon Hamm’s Don Draper became less of a polished adman and more of a woebegone American tragedy as the episodes wore on, as every other character underwent similarly profound trajectories. The most gripping and heartwrenching element of watching Draper’s final ad idea capping the end of the series, wasn’t just that it meant the conclusion of Mad Men, but with it came the certainty that these characters were still out there somewhere, continuing to live their lives.
Andrew Jarecki lucked out on The Jinx. Like, really, really lucked out. After Jarecki put out his 2010 film All Good Things, Bob Durst agreed for a sit-down interview. The interview was the catalyst for the documentary miniseries, as Jarecki pries closely into the string of murders for which Durst was accused. In six episodes, viewers get to know Durst better – arrhythmic blinks, mumbling and all. Durst’s arrest occurred the day before the miniseries’ finale, which further goes to show that law enforcement has no sense of creative timing.
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A barn swallow can make a home using a variety of tools. Mud, sticks, twigs, and leaves are patched together to form a safe space. It becomes one place instead of four different things. Once all the tools are used together, the swallow has a new creation. It once started out as an empty space against the side of a barn. The leaves scattered the ground and the twigs cracked in two as people and animals trod on them. As individual things, those tools appear useless, let alone helpful for the formation of a nest. However, when the swallow combines all the items, the side of a barn ceases to be just that.
As we start a new year, it is easy to be caught up in the “new year, new me” statement and promise. We set lofty goals for ourselves like: hit the gym more, start volunteering weekly, contact mom and dad, or call instead of text. These are all commendable ideas, but the pressure we put on ourselves to form a new person can lead to failure. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that we cannot humanly complete the list we make on January 1st.
It’s not about creating a new personality or “starting over”. You will fail if you tell yourself that this is what the New Year means. A new beginning is about using the tools that currently surround us to add on to what we have already built in new and creative ways. Just as a swallow makes one object by combining four completely different things, we also must add on to the structure that already exists.
A swallow doesn’t try to put sticks and mud together on nothing but air. It has a base, a foundation to build off
of. It utilizes a structure that already exists. Each New Year that comes and goes adds to a foundation. Instead of trying to force new habits, why not add on and improve on the existing lifestyle? Maybe choose one completely new tradition, but any more than that and you risk overwhelming yourself and quitting the gym or volunteer program within two weeks.
We are like a swallow and the barn is like our personality or souls. Every year, even every day, we add something new to whom we choose to be. We cannot patch together our personality with just sticks or with easily scattered leaves. We are far too unique and diverse for that. But if you take a little mud and glue leaves and twigs together then not only does it stick, but also three different elements are working together. They won’t stay together in thin air. The clump will fall apart and hit the ground. However, if you stick the cluster of leaves, twigs, and mud onto a barn, they will stay.
Some leaves will be blown away by the wind, just as we cannot continue every habit or activity. Sticks will fall on the dirt and be forgotten. Not everything will fit just right. But, the swallow keeps adding new twigs and leaves until a home begins to take shape.
Our personalities are our homes. If we treat the New Year right, we can become even more comfortable within ourselves. Challenges are great, but 12 months is a long time full of obstacles, laughter and new people. To accomplish and enjoy the year ahead, we must be able to provide our own strength. The only way to do that is by becoming more familiar with who we are.
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