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Cheating: My perspective

Sydney Roberts, Assistant Lifestyle Editor
March 27, 2014

Cheating is a topic that sparks my attention most recently due to the twitter account “Collegefession” where various males and females are bragging about cheating. The number of cheating tweets to the popular confession Twitter accounts is alarming. It is very rare to...

Lunar Gala event jumpstarts Pittsburgh fashion trends

Kendall Valan, Staff Writer
March 26, 2014

The city of steel became the city of bright LED lights, hot glue and armor shaped plastic during this year’s Lunar Gala event on Feb. 15 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The 18th annual fashion show, titled Hypnose, took place at the Carnegie Mellon University...

The Frozen hype begins to thaw, but it was cool while it lasted

Matt Merlino, Lifestyles Layout Editor
March 25, 2014

I have always loved Disney movies. The Lion King still tops my list of all-time favorites after all these years. The characters, as well as the songs made it an instant classic. From 1989-1999, Disney animation was at the top of its game, producing the musical renaissance...

Look Good Naked: Learning from the best

Leah Fleischel, Editor-in-Chief
March 21, 2014

Jillian Michaels’ brought her “Maximize Your Life” tour to the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh on Mar. 19 to an audience dying to know her secrets to health, fitness, and living a positive lifestyle. The presentation started out with a shocking video, meant to alert and...

RMU Proclamation: Sports and the dichotomy of winning and losing

Jon Fisher, Assignment Editor
March 21, 2014

What are sports? I'm not looking for the simplistic and sarcastic answer to that question. That is remedial at the lowest level of thinking for the average sports fan. Sports are people playing for a living. Sports are groups of men and women joining forces to achieve the...

Artifact: Jared Leto makes you want to never buy music again

Eddie Sheehy, Lifestyles Editora
March 18, 2014

I’ve got an “Out of My Element” first for you today. Documentaries are undoubtedly an important form of the motion picture industry. They have the power to change your mind, introduce you to something new, and even affect the world around us. Too often I think documentaries...

The Muppets are wanted again: “Muppets Most Wanted” review

Mike Funyak, Staff Writer
March 17, 2014

It has been ten years since the Walt Disney Company purchased the Muppets from the Jim Henson Company. And with Disney celebrating a ten-year anniversary of owning the Muppets, it is only fitting that the Muppets are wanted by a new generation. Muppets Most Wanted, the sequel...

How the music changed RMU

Brittany Rowe, Lifestyles Contributor
March 17, 2014

The diversity at Robert Morris University has become so popular that international students are comfortable expressing themselves through a variety of music. Students who attend Robert Morris are opening themselves up to new people who inspire them to have an open mind towards...

RMU Proclamation: Championship or not, the Colonials still won

Jon Fisher, Assignment Editor
March 7, 2014

January 4th, 2014 - 14 players, 5-10 record. March 6th, 2014 - 8 players, 14-2 NEC record, 20-12 overall record, regular season NEC championship and a birth to the semifinals in the NEC tournament. You say coincidence; I say Cinderella story. Normally, the recycled cliché...

Look Good Naked: Music can be magic

Leah Fleischel, Editor-in-Chief
March 7, 2014

Sometimes there’s no way around it, working out is just a drag. My biggest problem on the treadmill somedays is scrolling through my iPhone endlessly to find something to motivate me to go the distance. Pandora doesn’t always read my mind (plus commercials are a total buzz...