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Joseph Westphal
Joseph Westphal is a journalism student with an international studies minor. Westphal enjoys Chinese martial arts, anime, and gaming. His career goal is to be a Japanese pop-culture journalist.
December 12, 2014
New Music Ensemble dazzles crowd
At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the William Abbot Concert Hall, the New Music Ensemble did a series of six music performances: “Suite,” “Hummingbird Songs,” “Loch Spell,” “A Stray Cat Asleep on the Roof in the Spring Rain,” “Shakey Ground,” and “Forever.”
November 14, 2014
Three fall-released anime films deemed worthy
With the fall 2014 season of anime reaching its midpoint, we have seen which anime seem to live up to their hype and which ones have not; I would like to take this time to briefly summarize and critique my top three anime recommendations for both new and veteran anime viewers.