January 27, 2021
MACOMB, IL – An opportunity for Western Illinois University Broadcasting and Journalism alumni to gather during COVID-19 has transformed into a podcast highlighting their careers after college, hosted by College of Fine Arts and Communication Associate Dean William Buzz Hoon.
The first episode of Alumni Chats kicked off Jan. 19, and Hoon hopes the podcast will become a weekly production, with a new episode released each Thursday. I think this podcast really connects to University engagement, said Hoon. In December, we had nine broadcasting and journalism alumni on a call and it was such an outstanding success. I m teaching a multi-media performance class this semester, but a podcast is not in my comfort zone. But this has made me realize that I need to try more things out of my comfort zone.
We are a nation divided. Democrats. Republicans. Polarized. Cleaved.
On everything from race to climate change, from how to repair the economy to how to handle the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are in sharp disagreement.
A study by Pew Research Center showed the depth of the divide a month before Novemberâs election, when roughly eight in 10 registered Trump and Biden voters said a victory by the other candidate would cause âlasting harmâ to the nation.Â
Morgan Marietta, an associate professor of political science in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, has studied these divides. He specializes in American political rhetoric, political psychology and ideology, and what he calls âthe political consequences of belief.â His most recent book, âOne Nation, Two Realities,â is a study of dueling fact perceptions, including their causes and consequences.Â
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Park Seung-sook, an art therapist and daughter of the Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome) artist Park Seo-bo, has released an English version of a biography of her father online for free.
Titled Park Seo-bo s Art & Life, the book chronicles Park s artistic career and personal life in the context of Korea s turbulent modern history.
Park was born in 1931 in Yecheon, North Gyeongsang Province and entered the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University in 1950, just before the outbreak of the Korean War. He was the country s first artist to pursue the Art Informel movement in Korea and later taught at his alma mater Hongik University for about three decades from 1962 to 1994 and served as dean of the College of Fine Arts.
The new Lexington mural Imagine Nation is the brainchild of art students in UK s Guerilla Arts course. Photo by Lee Ann Paynter.
“We knew we wanted to do a mural project and discussed it early on in the semester. We scouted some locations that were offered to us, and continued looking. Aaron Abbott (a Lexington digital design media senior) noticed this wall on Emmaline Lane on his way to school one day, and realized it was a great location for our mural and he actually knows the owner! It was really Aaron s connection to Mr. Queen that got us this great location,” said Lee Ann Paynter, lecturer in digital media foundations and photography.
In the 2002 pilot episode of the hit FX series
The Shield, the show’s merciless and corrupt protagonist, Los Angeles Police Department detective Vic Mackey, played by Michael Chiklis, brutally beats a suspect and murders a fellow officer in cold blood and it only gets worse from there. For the rest of the show’s seven seasons, Mackey displays increasingly disturbing and illegal behavior: torturing and killing suspects, stealing evidence, embezzling money. Not only did the events of that first episode make it onto
Rolling Stone’s “The Shocking 16: TV’s Most Heart-stopping Moments,” but
Entertainment Weekly also named Mackey one of its “16 Ultimate TV Antiheroes.”