by MATT ADAMS
Staff writer

Bringing Color from Home to Small Town America

Join Tiffin University and international students from India on April 23, 2018, for a festival of color. This is a great opportunity to immerse yourself with fellow students and learn about different cultural traditions not celebrated nationally in the United States. College is the best time to experience opportunities like the Holi festival.

Holi is on of the most celebrated festivals in India and the Hindu religion and is based on the new moon. The festival can be mostly compared to Mardi Gras in the Christian faith. It is a time of celebrating life and love, as people rejoice in the good times. Like Mardi Gras, Holi is celebrated for a few weeks, with special traditions happening for specific periods of time. There is a time where certain foods are eaten for the festival and eventually capped off with the festival of color.

For the Hindu faith, Holi represents who someone is and what people believe in, as people get closer to their religion. Many legends and mythology give Holi life in modern times, altogether Holi represents good versus evil. Good always won in the legend Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap,  Radha and Krishna, Ogress Pootana, Lord Shiva and Kaamadeva, andOgress Dhundhi.

The legend of Radha and Krishna is believed where color is used to represent the significance to Holi. In any circumstances or beliefs, Holi is important to Tiffin University Indian student population. It is important for any international student to celebrate festivals from home, it brings home to a part of the world that is different and new. International festivals help students not feel homesick and give a chance to celebrate their culture. The Indian students have been excited to prepare the Holi festival. They are also excited to showcase their culture to other students.

​

by ABBEY HOBBS
Staff writer

How did you get started in theater?
Both of my parents really loved the arts. My dad was a trumpet player and my mom danced when she was young. I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and she put my sister and myself in ballet. My sister did about a year of it, but I absolutely loved it. I always wanted to stay with it. That was always my decision. I just really liked performing, so when I was 6 my mom took me around to some auditions, and I wound up being in Madam Butterfly as the mute little boy.

by JESSICA HOLLAN
Editor

I arrived a respectable 15 minutes early (#Dragontime), and I still had to sit multiple rows down from the front. Without darting through the audience behind our student body president Trent Dundore I wouldn’t have stood a chance at gaining a respectable seat. But what else did I expect when an original cast member of the hit Broadway show Hamilton comes to town?