Outside the Box | Find your style
By Chelsea Van Baalen/The Torch chelseavanbaalen@lcctorch.com Two years ago I didn’t know how to dress myself. Let me rephrase that, I knew how to put clothes on, I just didn’t know how to put any style on. I lived by the following equation: Jeans + T-Shirt + Sweatshirt + Scarf = Everyday. I’m even exposing...
Outside the Box: Don’t hold back
By Chelsea Van Baalen/The Torch chelseavanbaalen@lcctorch.com It started out as a rumor I heard as a sophomore in high school. When will it come out? Who would star in it? But most importantly, would it actually happen? I was deep into my Hunter S. Thompson phase, purchasing “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “The Great...
Outside the Box | Finding your inner-Eugenian
By Chelsea Van Baalen/The Torch chelseavanbaalen@lcctorch.com I’ve heard it everywhere: on the bus, on campus, waiting in line at various grocery stores, pushing a cart through Fred Meyer. Eugene is weird. But after a year of living here, I have to say, it’s a pretty cool weird. Unfortunately, it took me almost a year to...
Go forth and create
By Chelsea Van Baalen/The Torch chelseavanbaalen@lcctorch.com I have a confession to make. I’m not a journalism major. That’s not to say I don’t love journalism and obsess over AP style. It’s not as though I’ve thrown my previous experiences at Mt. Hood Community College’s “The Advocate” to the wind and am only here for...
It’s the end of the world . . .
By Chelsea Van Baalen/The Torch chelseavanbaalen@lcctorch.com This column goes out to a band I love. R.E.M. announced its break-up last week and I, like most of the music industry, am still reeling from the news. After surviving 31 years, 15 albums, dozens of singles and even losing a member, R.E.M. was a seemingly unstoppable alternative-rock...
Outside the Box: Meet your new escape artist
Arts and entertainment can mean a lot of things to different people. It can mean theater-based reviews, covering the latest top hits from the pop flavors of the week, or dissecting the newest sequel to a movie series we’ve all been watching. But for me, it’s always been about one thing. What do you do...
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