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Lorde breaks hearts with ‘Melodrama’

By Sam Malone | January 16, 2018

This review is part of a series on nominations for Album of the Year.Somehow combining a schizophrenic and a predictable nature, Lorde’s “Melodrama” may be the most contradictory album nominated for the prestigious Album of the Year award at the...

The Student Association Senate meets Sunday in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room. The Senate had a redo of last week’s senator-at-large candidates after it was discovered the Senate disobeyed SA Bylaws. In order to adhere to the bylaws, senator-at-large candidates were voted on to the Senate by a two-thirds majority and were not allowed to vote on other business matters until every senator-at-large candidate at the meeting had been voted on. 

Senate full after redo of last week

By Margaret Maka | October 19, 2014

Following last Sunday’s breach of the Student Association bylaws, eight senator-at-large candidates went before the SA Senate Sunday for another vote.Senate Speaker Dillon Domke and the Rules and Procedures committee decided to redo the vote after the...

Lorde have mercy, this album rocks

Lorde have mercy, this album rocks

By Kevin Bartelt | October 2, 2013

Talent continues to start young as thriving 16-year-old Lorde released her first album, “Pure Heroine,” Friday.The record was anticipated after the success of her billboard hit “Royals.” The Lana Del Rey-influenced tracks show a modest reflection...

Lorde set to release album, perform first shows in U.S.

By Aymie Telinski | August 29, 2013

Ella Yelich-O’Connor, better known as Lorde, reached musical success before most people obtain a driver’s license.The high school student is from New Zealand, and in her home country her single, “Royals,” spent three weeks at No. 1. Last year,...