2019 – 2020 Digital Editorial Staff

Name: Cameron Payne

Digital Media Director

Major: Social Work

Favorite Song Lyric: “I cut flowers for all of my rooms/ I care for myself the way I used to care about you” -Hard Feelings/Loveless by Lorde

Fun Fact: I broke the growth plate in my shoulder when I was 10 so one of my arms is longer than the other.

Name: Yasmin Ettobi

Senior Music Editor

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Name: Joel Dull

Senior Arts Editor

Major: Film Studies

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Music Reporters

Name: Bridget Benevides

Major: Nursing

Favorite Song Lyric: “and at once I knew, I was not magnificent” -Holocene by Bon Iver

Fun Fact: I can sometimes almost perfectly play “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on harmonica

 

Name: Will Turner

Major: Computer Engineering

Favorite Song Lyric: “If you want to be free, be free” -Yusuf Islam

Fun Fact: Andy Warhol described Videodrome as the A Clockwork Orange of the 80’s.

Favorite Venue: The Cove in Oakland, CA

 

Name: JB Mellin

Major: Strategic Communications

Favorite Song Lyric: “There is a house in New Orleans / Not the one you’ve heard about. I’m talking about another house.“ -New Orleans by Silver Jews

Fun Fact: I met Steven Tyler once at a deli in New Hampshire.

Favorite Venue: Aragon Ballroom in Chicago

 

Name: Henry Hawking

Major: Anthropology

Favorite Song Lyric: “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face”

Fun Fact: I grew up on an island.

Favorite Venue: Core House

Arts Reporters

Name: Sophia Modica

Major: Humanities

Favorite Song Lyric: “How can I move forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?”

Fun Fact: I had the same teacher as Elliot Smith!

Favorite Venue: The Wonder Ballroom

 

Name: Deia Valez

Major: Communications

Favorite Song Lyric: I put my hand upon your hip. When I dip, you dip, we dip” -Freak Nasty

Fun Fact: On my birthday in 1997, “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” was released.

 

Name: Marisa Reyes-Pacheo

Major: Film Studies

Favorite Song Lyric: “I got a heart that don’t speak to me anymore, And life gets hard but these last days been meanin’ more” – Kevin Abstract, “Empty”

Fun Fact: Kevin Abstract of Brockhampton took my phone on stage and recorded a video at Wamu and my soul left my entire body and hasn’t returned since.

 

Name: Mark Bautista

Major: English/ Creative Writing

Favorite Song Lyric: I may not always love you/But long as there are stars above you/ You never need to doubt it/ I’ll make you so sure about it/ God only knows what I’d be without you”- Beach Boys, “God Only Knows”

Fun Fact:  I can recite the whole of Toy Story 1 or 2 by memory.

 

Photographers

Name: Claire Livingston

Major: Communication and Media, Strategic Communications

Favorite Song Lyric: “You were wearing a Power Ranger black t-shirt, so was I, a different color.”

Fun Fact: I put hot sauce on everything.

Favorite Venue: The Neptune Theatre or The Showbox