Thursday, May 2, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Love Rich Fashion Show
Jelena Lovric launches her first fashion line at Blue Martini Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
Earthquake Strikes Iran
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck southern Iran Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The quake killed at least 31 people and entire towns were destroyed, according to Los Angeles Times.
The shock struck close to Iran's Gulf port city, Bushehr causing panic and evacuations in some office buildings nearby. Bushehr provincial Governor Fereydoon Hasanvand confirmed that at least 650 people were injured and are being hospitalized.
Hundreds of miles from Bushehr in Dubai, many high-rise buildings executed brief evacuations. Some evacuations also occurred in Bahrain.
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| A mother and child stand among the rubble after the earthquake that took place in Iran in August 2012. |
Electricity and telecommunication was cut off and search and rescue teams were sent to the area.
The quake happened to leave Iran's only nuclear plant almost untouched. "No damage at all has been caused [to the nuclear plant]," Governor of Bushehr Province Fereidon Hasanvand told state television.
Iran is placed around many major fault lines making it prone to frequent earthquakes. More than a dozen aftershocks have been reported, with the most powerful aftershock at 5.3 magnitude.
Camera Obscura Experiment
In Ellen Stern's history of photography class
at Lynn University, students experienced turning the classroom into a camera by
creating their own camera obscura.
"A camera obscura is a light-tight box
with a tiny hole on one side that projects an image from the opposite wall
upside-down and backwards," explained Alexandra Ojeda, senior.
To create a camera obscura, the room must be
completely dark and light-tight. A small hole is cut to create a lens and hung
up on one wall to let light through the window, which will project the
upside-down, backwards image on the wall across.
Students began by cutting and taping large,
black garbage bags to be used for covering the light coming through the window.
Then students used tin foil, black tape and black garbage bags to create the
lens for the camera obscura by cutting out a small hole for the light to come
through and project an image.
After two separate sessions of cutting the bags
to create the camera obscura, students were ready to set up the room. Students
hung the bags on the window and then shut off the lights to
observe the outcome of the experiment.
For a camera obscura to work, the room needs to
be completely protected from any light that might be able to come through. For
this experiment, light was coming through cracks in the windows and a small
crack under the door, and it did not turn out as
planned. However, a subtle image projected on the wall could be seen.
"It took us about two days to cut out the
garbage bags and we even put them on the windows and checked if any light was
leaking through," said Ojeda. "There was a hole in the ceiling,
around the door, there was a lot of light coming through."
"We would need heavy duty [garbage] bags
that did not let any light in and we also needed a really bright day which we
did not have," added Professor Stern. "Then we would have had a
really spectacular image that was upside-down and backwards."
The experiment was not as successful as
planned, but students enjoyed the experience.
Parker Red Carpet Premier
On January 25, 2013 the red carpet premier for the movie Parker took place in West Palm Beach, FL and three Lynn University students were granted media passes to go behind the scenes for some electronic news gathering.
Directed by Taylor Hackford, Parker stars Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez. The film is an adaptation of the 19th Parker novel about a professional thief (Statham) who is betrayed by his accomplices and left for dead. He takes on a new identity and becomes involved with a real estate agent (Lopez) in a scheme to seize the score of his former crew's heist.
"This comes from a long line of novels written by Donald Westlake," said Statham, who plays Parker in the film.
"It's very interesting, this professional thief, this professional criminal, but he's got a code of ethics," said Hackford, director. "He has rules that he follows and he never cheats on them, and I think there's something interesting about that."
Parker was shot in Palm Beach at the Boca Resort and West Palm Beach. "You're going to see this area of South Florida in the movie," said Hackford. "Both Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, and Boca."
Co-star Jennifer Lopez could not make it to the premier, but director Hackford had some things to say about working with the award-winning actress. "[She's] totally disciplined and gave me everything I wanted," he said. "She is fantastic."
Hackford also gave some advice for aspiring filmmakers. "I would just say to young people who are trying don't expect an easy road, it's really hard," he advised. "But, if you really wanted it and you're talented, chances are you'll get there."
"The thing this is with the movie business anything can happen," added Stathum. "If it's a passion of yours then you have to remain faithful to that."
Following the red carpet premier, Lynn reporters got a free pass to view the premier screening of the film. After the screening a question and answer was held with director Taylor Hackford where the audience had the opportunity to ask questions.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month takes place in April and is about spreading awareness about sexual assault and promoting healthy sexual behavior within the community. Lynn University supports Sexual Assault Awareness Month and for the entire month of April the human services department works with the women's center run by Charlotte Murel to arrange many activities for students to get involved.
Senior seminar students in the human services program took on group projects where they researched different topics about sexual assault and created YouTube videos on their findings. The students set up a table outside the cafeteria to screen their videos to educate campus about sexual assault awareness.
"Our project is basically on sexual assault and bystanders and how they can make a really big impact on victims' lives by speaking up for them when they don't have the courage to do so themselves," said Mayra Gallo, senior and criminal justice major. "We've been working on this for about five weeks and it was really hard to make a video on my own but a good learning experience."
"We did alcohol and sexual assault and focused primarily on college women," said Savanna Lightfoot, senior and human services major. "Our focus was how alcohol can increase your risk of being sexually assaulted."
A bystander training presentation also took placed to educate campus about sexual assault and how to prevent it.
"[We're] trying to engage people in the Lynn community to be part of prevention," said Dr. Levenson, head of the human services department.
"This really is an issue for our community and we want to educate not just young women but young men as well as to what sexual assault means, how they can recognize inappropriate sexual contact or comments and how everyone can take responsibility for stepping in and promoting healthy and respectful sexual behaviors on campus and in our community," added Levenson.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month takes place all April and information about activities can be found around campus.
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