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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.  photo submitted by Carol A. McDannell
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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.  Betsy Struxness performs “Satisfied” from the hit Broadway show Hamilton. photo courtesy of TIFFIN UNIVERSITY 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? by BRANDON UTLEY Assistant editor 1. When they ask “do you work here?” as if you are wearing the uniform for fun.  2. When they ask if there is more in the back as if it is a portal to another dimension.  3. When they make the worst joke in retail history. “If it doesn’t scan it’s free right?”  4. When you are not busy for five minutes and someone walks up and says “you look like you need some work to do.”  5. When they say how sad it is that you have to work on a holiday as if they are not the one in the store shopping.  6. When they ask to see a manager just for them to say the exact same thing you did.  7. When they spend the entire transaction on their phone instead of paying attention.  8. When they walk up to you and do not say a single word yet expect you to know exactly what they want.  9. When they act like they saw coupons in the email when you don’t even send out coupons.  10. When they ask for a senior/employee discount when they are not elderly or an employee.  11. When they accuse you of being rude even though you are just doing your job  12. When they complain about the store running out of merchandise as if you were single-handedly in control of the inventory.  13. When they think they can do whatever they want because they are a “regular customer.”  14. When they try to get you to break policy for them because “they did it last time.”  15. When they interrupt your working because they have a “quick question” that is never quick.  16. When they get mad when you ask if they want a rewards/credit card.  17. When they slide their money on the counter instead of handing it to you like a normal person.  18. When they cut you off mid greeting.  19. When they make a mess and say its “job security” for the employees.  20. When you ask how they are doing and the only response they can come up with is “yup.”  by NICK BUCHANAN
Editor Dr. Vallo’s independent guided study met twice a week in the concrete dungeon of a classroom in the library basement during the fall of 2015. Her challenge for me and my two peers was to accomplish something never before done at Tiffin University: a successful online student press platform that could reach beyond the campus we serve. We nabbed the domain name to correspond with the name of the school’s second-generation student press – tutimes.weebly.com, a URL that still redirects users to this publication’s homepage – and quietly got to work. When Dr. Vallo pulled library archives of the student press at Tiffin University to chronicle our journey, she handed us a pile of copies of The Tystenac, a strange-named publication with a big, blocky masthead that launched in 1933 and faded into oblivion before the turn of the century. 4/17/2017 Coffee grounds, battlegrounds: Tiffin's independent coffee houses hold strong against competitionRead Now Sabaidee Coffee House staff member Amber Lantz and owner Delana Ball stand behind the service counter. Ball believes that relationships are essential to sustaining her independent coffee shop. photo by NICK BUCHANAN by NICK BUCHANAN
Editor An unusually warm February breeze brushed through Sabaidee Coffee House’s tall French doors as they stood propped open, inviting more customers to join the lone college-aged men fuddling with a few textbooks and a laptop computer at a table. Eyeing their empty plates, Delana Ball bent in her seat towards them. “How was everything, guys?” she asked. They nodded in agreeance, saying, “The steak and cheese crepe – it was great.” With her promises of quality validated, she turned back and said, “See, people love it.” Ball, one of two independent coffee house entrepreneurs in Tiffin, purchased and rebranded the former Java House at 45 South Sandusky St. a few years ago, reopening it in 2014 as Sabaidee Coffee House. She has spent the past three years positioning her business with a homey environment and creative menu offerings, like those ever-popular crepes and a blended coffee drink coined the Carmella. Opened just a few years prior to Ball’s business, Bailiwicks Coffee Company is nestled in the downtown district in a nondescript brick building across the Sandusky River from Tiffin University’s campus and has earned its owner, Jessica Williams, awards from the Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corporation and Heidelberg University.  Isabeau Murray, Brittany Cortez, Sadie Harris, and Kalyn Snider eat a meal in the Cole Dining Hall. photo by BRANDON UTLEY by BRANDON UTLEY
Staff writer If you have ever sat through a meal that consisted of nothing but a glass of water, you might have been to Tiffin University’s Cole Dining Hall, commonly known as “the caf.” As a picky eater I have experienced the tragic feeling of walking into the caf and not being able to find something I like on numerous occasions. But to the caf’s defense, its food is not the worst I’ve eaten. There are even days, albeit rare, that the food tastes better than most restaurants. “It has its good days and bad days. But honestly, more bad than good,” said Becca Smith, a sophomore at TU. It’s crazy to think the food is not actually as bad as you think, right? Well, that’s partially true.  The Global Affairs Organization offers co-curricular credit and free coffee, tea, and cookies from Sabaidee at all speaker events. photo by JESSICA HOLLAN by JESSICA HOLLAN
Assistant editor Have you attended an interesting speech presented by a distinguished scholar recently? Did you receive free cookies, coffee, and tea at the event? Was co-curricular credit offered? If you answered yes to all three of those questions, then chances are you were an attendee of a Global Affairs Organization event. Tiffin University’s Global Affairs was founded less than 10 years ago and offers its members an opportunity to attend the Model United Nations and Model NATO conferences as representatives of assigned countries. Last year, TU represented Turkey and Estonia at Model NATO in Washington D.C. and was considered to be an active participant to the discussion, contributing many ideas and solutions for both countries, and maintaining diplomatic relations with other countries. I need some help with my fashion attire. What do you do when you have two pair of boots that look good with the same outfit? At my internship, I need to always look fresh and profesh! TU, what’s good? by PAJAH WILLIAMS
Contributing writer If you know anything about me at all, then you’ll know that I am an avid social media crusader. I use Facebook as a platform to advocate for social justice and peace, and yes, at times, to discuss politics. Indeed, I heavily criticized Donald Trump throughout the extent of his circus of a campaign for president, and yes, I will admit to being among those who declared that Trump is #NotMyPresident. I did these things because I felt it was important to vocalize my disdain towards some of the xenophobic and hateful ideologies that he stood for as a part of his campaign. I did it to extend support to my Muslim and LGBT friends and the media that Trump has outright attacked in ways that are unprecedented of a president of the United States. |