September 21 Written by Graham Byrne, Mitali Shukla and Micaela Bastianelli We missed out on a lot of things this year. But, thankfully, the pandemic has given us the opportunity to cuddle up with our pets or quarantine buddies to watch entertainment on a variety of streaming platforms. The Panther staff has compiled all the […]
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Screen acting alumna Regina Bryant shoots pilot of web series ‘L.Y.F.E.’
September 21 By Mitali Shukla Regina Bryant had a difficult decision to make when choosing what college she wanted to attend. She knew she’d wanted to be an actor since she was six years old – when her mother first pusher her to participate in a play – so she settled on a decision between […]
‘Challenger’ docuseries uses Chapman archives
September 27 By Mitali Shukla As the second most-viewed NASA launch in its history, the Challenger disaster stands out in history because it could have been prevented. Netflix released the four-part docuseries “Challenger: The Final Flight” on Sept. 16, investigating the 1986 failure-to-launch of NASA’s “Challenger” space shuttle. The flight garnered global attention because of […]
Opinion | America has always been burning
September 7 | Written by Mitali Shukla After roughly six months of the global pandemic, our country’s state of affairs only seems to be getting worse. The entirety of 2020 has been almost everyone’s worst year, but it is also the year of reckoning: fires ravaged 2.5 million acres in California, the U.S. police killed […]
Conservatory introduces Mariachi ensemble
September 7 | Written by Mitali Shukla There’s two key things College of Performing Arts professor Tammy Yi preaches to her musical education students: the importance of world music pedagogy and the ability to teach a diverse student population. Yet, when she came to Chapman as a professor, she noticed there were no world music […]
Freshmen rent Lake Tahoe house in lieu of dorm life
September 7 | Written by Mitali Shukla Independence. Freedom. They’re both hallmarks of a traditional college experience. Annika Krein, a freshman animation and visual effects major, approached her first year at Chapman University with a desire to know what it’s like to live on her own. So, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than live […]
COVID-19 job market leaves fewer opportunities for students
For weeks, senior sociology major Hannah Fetherston thought she had secured an internship researching race and ethnicity this past summer. In her application, she was asked to take timed and graded examinations to determine her eligibility in early May. And by the fourth week of the process, she was feeling great. “I talked to them […]
Orange protests create coalition with student support
Written by Mitali Shukla Posted on The Panther on August 16 Sule Murray, a senior television writing and production major, was sitting in a friend’s hot tub after attending a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Newport Beach, California. He and his friends felt unfulfilled despite their enthusiasm for the BLM movement, so they wanted […]
On the front lines: junior fights for justice in Abolition Park
August 10 Written by Mitali Shukla Posted on The Panther Newspaper On the fourth night of Abolition Park, camping Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors fell asleep in City Hall Park only to wake up to a group of 30 to 40 police officers. They claimed they were there to arrest protestors tagging a wall, and […]