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
Major:
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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