Attention BlueHen Bloggers!

Just wanted to leave you guys a quick post on something I've been working a lot on lately. I learned a cool trick on making cool animated images earlier this year. It's helped me make cool pictures ever since and if you have an iPhone, you have the capability to do it too!

It's really easy but I haven't heard anyone else create animations this way so I'll give you, my loyal followers, this awesome tip.

Check out this WikiHow I've made for all the nessesary steps, etc. Enjoy, and as they said in 1914, "Go make you some of them fancy electric moving pictures! That's the devil's work, don't ya know!"

The view of my room from my floor.

More Photos from Bass Campus

Pictures courtesy of The Black Sheep online

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Bass Campus "Wub-Wub-Wubs" UDel

This weekend our lovely campus played host to a variety of different special events, but one in particular stood out among all the rest:

If you couldn't make it, you missed out on quite a bit. Organized by the techno appreciation club Deltronica, the group somehow found a way to keep attendants occupied for the entire day. Engaging in more than just nerdy music, people came from all over UD to participate in face painting, art exhibits, yoga sessions, tie-dying, and the all time favorite?

You guessed it, hoola hooping!... or maybe it was the water slide? Both were really fun. As you can see, even hippies with little to no interest in the electronica scene still had a grand time! For those who were however, there this strange new type of live music being played called the "Silent Disco". Audience members donned high-end wireless headphones given to them by the DJs and an entire crowd would dance to the same live mix being played. Can you imagine what that looks like? Something close to this:

This extravaganza of awesomeness yielded thousands of guests by the end of the night and everyone had a super duper time. Everyone that is, except for people trying to study in their dorms on Laird campus that day. "I don't get why they can't do stuff like this on the Green. It's so damn loud, none of us can study let alone sleep if we wanted to." clamored an agitated sophomore James Smith resident. "I've got nursing tests coming up, I'm pretty sure everyone's got something they've got to study for this week." The party poopers decided to pack their things and head to Club Morris, but when I told them the Green was also hosting loud events that day, they gave up and joined the crowd. You know what they say,

If you can't beat em...

... dubstep!

Just kidding, I don't even like dubstep.

University of Delaware: Wasting Your Money

Before leaving for spring break, you might have noticed that Mentor's Circle (connecting Morris Library and Memorial hall) was fenced off for construction. Unless you live under a rock, you'd notice they placed a rather large one right in the middle of it. A very large, ugly piece of nothing. 

This statue of a blank book serves absolutely zero purpose and cost an estimated $180,000 dollars to put together. It should be of no surprise that someone doesn't know how to spend our money properly. Just last year UD decided to eliminate all of the funding for running sports, to help with budget cuts. (Because everyone knows buying shorts and shoes costs way more than lacrosse or football gear, right?)

Unfortunately, this big hunk of waste isn't even a good work of art. It isn't aesthetically pleasing at all and doesn't do Delaware justice. It's as if they picked an ugly random sculpture out of The Sims™, honestly. Think I'm being a bit unfair? That's okay, just take a look at the feedback the statue has gotten from the University's official FaceBook page. The student body has overwhelmingly displayed outrage at the meer existence of the concrete abomination. 

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Being a member of the class of 2014, I still vividly recall attending my convocation as a freshmen. We were told to congratulate ourselves for picking the university that will best prepare us for the trying times ahead. It's sad to see these people we looked to as mentors not embracing this very truth they tried to convince us about before applying. If we can't trust in them to help set us on a straight path for our future, then who? We are indebted to the University (many of us will be until we die), and in exchange we ask for them to provide us with a strong education and an environment with which we can strive to succeed. 

So what then are we to say to the poor calling center employee when they beg us for donations? Is the reality of this world not hitting you President Harker? How can you sleep at night knowing that thousands of hardworking students are struggling to make ends meet while trying to be a proud Blue Hen? 

Where to find more C∞P News

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Happy Cluckin'!