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Arts & Culture
The University News
October 26, 2016
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The art of dormitory gardening
Timelessness
Core
Decorum
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Elizabeth Mitch
Contributing Writer
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ration but timelessness,
then he lives eternally
who lives in the pres-
ent.
the most known nutrients
of any food: plant, grain
or herb. Spirulina is an
algae that the U.S. De-
partment of Agriculture
refers to as the food of
the future because its
quick growth rate and
nutritional content give
it potential for solving
world hunger. In fact,
there is a story of Catho-
lic nuns in Central Africa
growing it for malnour-
ished children.
Despite how great
spirulina is for the hu-
man body, most people
have never heard of it.
Perhaps this is because
algae simply aren’t the
prettiest of vegetables for
marketing.
Nevertheless, it is
possible to grow this
plant at home with a
fish tank and harvesting
equipment. For about
four to six months, you
can grow and filter out
the algae; eating merely
five to ten grams of it
will yield health benefits.
If your roommates aren’t
weirded out by the green
tank in the room, you
can grow some great
vitamins from home.
“Magnificent Seven” is everything a
much more.
They fought like seven hundred...
added bonus, wheatgrass
is pretty enough to deco-
rate a desk
Mushrooms aren’t
technically vegetables,
or even plants. However,
hobbits aren’t the only
persons with a taste for
them. Shiitake mush-
rooms are essential to
many East Asian cui-
sines, while portabella
and white button mush-
rooms are popular in
Western cuisine. You
may have heard stories
of people looking for mo-
rel mushrooms in forests.
Now you can grow
all of those mushrooms
at home. For beginners,
it’s probably best to pur-
chase an inexpensive kit
such as a shiitake log or
a portabella box. Then
simply let the kit sit in a
dark corner or on your
kitchen counter. De-
pending on the species
of mushroom, you could
have a crop in 10 days to
six weeks.
If you’re really feel-
ing adventurous and
wish to wow your friends
and your body, you can
attempt to grow spiru-
lina. Spirulina provides
f by eternity
is understood
not endless
temporal du-
(Ghris Pratt), who is
eager to help. They
are later joined by sev-
eral others: Goodnight
Robicheaux (Ethan
Hawke), a noted
sharpshooter; Billy
Rocks (Lee Byung-
hun), who wields a
knife; a tracker named
Jack Horne (Vincent
contain vitamins A, B,
G, E and K, and contain
the minerals calcium,
magnesium, potassium,
iron and zinc. Sprouts
will yield a harvest about
every five days, so you
could potentially keep
a round of five mason
jars to ensure you have
sprouts every day.
Microgreens are
similar to sprouts in their
immense nutritional con-
tent, but they are grown
in soil. As the name sug-
gests, they are the baby
plants of vegetables like
broccoli or watercress.
Because the plants are
tiny you can grow a lot of
them in a small amount
of space, just as long as
they have sunlight. A
crop of microgreens will
be ready to snip in about
one to three weeks, so
keeping about two or
three trays of greens in
rotation would ensure
that you had fresh veg-
etables once a week.
One popular micro-
green you might know is
wheatgrass, which is used
either raw or for mak-
ing intensely nutritious
wheatgrass shots. As an
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A clock ticks. Time
passes. My beard
lengthens, and then I
trim it. Another day,
another day. So many
cups of coffee drunk,
so many pages written.
There’s laundry to be
done another check-
mark on the to-do list.
Sleeping and waking,
as Psalms says, “from
the rising of the sun
to its setting ...” And
then what?
Quotidian malaise
oppresses and distracts.
The senselessness of
temporal succession
bears upon me. An-
other weekend to live
for; another Monday
to regroup. Each day
passes like the one
before, and I wonder
what is to come.
Whatever is next
will likewise pass into
the anonymity of
memory and history.
Each next dies as soon
as it is born, and the
fragmentation that
ensues suspends me in
the impersonality of
temporal succession. I
am not he who lives in
the present.
It’s rather bleak
to imagine oneself as
the victim of routine.
And I would reckon
that routine’s victim
must always be a John
Doe — a man without
a face. In those mo-
ments when I become
that victim, I become
something less than
myself, too fragmented
to be identified.
The situation is en-
tirely otherwise for he
who lives in the pres-
ent. Being grounded
in the moment, taking
in every detail in its
depth as opposed to
its passing, that sort of
man opens himself up
to the world and, con-
Photo by Paulina Martin
If you want to eat healthier in college while not breaking the
bank, indoor gardening is one of the best ways to do it.
to the work that allow
modern audiences to
appreciate it in a new,
fresh manner.
The plot is as
straightforward as it
was in the ’60s. The
audience is taken back
to the Old West circa
18 7 9. A corrupt indus-
trialist by the name of
Bartholomew Bogue
(Peter Sarsgaard) en-
snares the small min-
ing hamlet of Rose
Greek, slaughtering a
score of locals led by
Matthew Gullen (Matt
Borner) who dared to
stand up to Bogue’s
greed. Emma Gullen,
played by the excel-
lent Haley Bennett,
sequently, the world
opens itself to him.
Eternity is present to
him.
Christianity likes to
posit God and heaven
as dwelling outside of
time, in the eternity of
timelessness of which
Wittgenstein speaks. I
would wager that he
who lives in the present
and so lives eternally
does so only in virtue
of that part of the hu-
man person which is
made in the image of
God. How else would
an access to eternity
be possible in the me-
chanical progression
of temporality?
Nietzsche protests,
saying that it is rea-
son and memory that
makes man the vic-
tim of time’s passage.
Animals, which do not
remember in any spe-
cific way, are happy be-
cause they live entirely
in the moment. Past
and future are nothing
to them.
That’s also a rath-
er bleak way to think
about things. Wittgen-
stein’s eternity is ac-
cessed not by shaving
off aspects of experi-
ence, but by diving
into the experience at
hand. Remembrance
and anticipation can
access an otherwise
untapped depth.
Take, for example,
the most recent festival
at the University of
Dallas: Oktoberfest.
The memory of the
past three falls sharp-
ened my anticipation
of that evening’s festiv-
ity, and so, when gates
of the complex were
thrown open and the
tented beer hall lit, I
lived in that moment
eternally.
Sadly, I must now
resign that moment to
memory, and that rath-
er speaks of the ten-
sion between the tem-
porality of the world
and the eternity of
the present. That ten-
sion can nevertheless
be mediated by each
moment manifesting
itself outstandingly
in an eternal present.
Whether that moment
be mundane or sacred,
it comes with an un-
spoken impulse to fin-
ish the Psalm quoted
in part above: “May
the name of the Lord
be praised!”
parts of our culture.
Originality is in-
herent in a society that
values individualism
and creativity as piv-
otal in maintaining
meaningful culture
and a strong society.
Remakes, at least to
the degree of recent
decades, dull such in-
dividualism, creating
a mass of people that
are unused to review-
ing films critically and
choosing their patron-
age based upon the
quality of a film rather
than on the quality of
the trailer.
There are a few
instances, however,
in which remakes
not only do justice
to the originals, but
also build upon them
to make something
unique. Such films pay
homage to the genre
to which they belong,
bringing forth lost
filmmaking arts with
a modern flair that
not only justify the
existence of a genre,
but also satisfy the au-
dience with entertain-
ment and intellectual
nourishment.
“The Magnificent
Seven” is one such
remake. It takes the
best portions of the
original 1960 work
by John Sturges (it-
self based on Akira
Kuraoawa’s “Seven
Samurai”), while mak-
ing several additions
“Magnificent Seven”: a quality
remake of a classic western
D’Onofrio); a Co-
manche brave named
Red Harvest (Mar-
tin Sensmeier); and
Vasquez (Manuel Gar-
cia-Rulfo), a notorious
Mexican bandito.
Together they aim
to win Emma and Ted-
dy Q their vengeance
and free the settlement
of Rose Greek.
Long story short,
there’s a lot of death,
ambushes and riding
off into the sunset, as
well as a Gatling gun
and plenty of fire-
power.
One cannot over-
look, moreover, that
this movie is the fi-
nal film of celebrat-
ed composer James
Horner.
With the above,
alongside its all-star
cast and crew, this
movie does what few
have ever accom-
plished in the storied
history of filmmaking:
It serves as a remake
that isn’t terrible. In
this humble writer’s
opinion, that is not
nothing.
o m e t i m e s
healthy eating
i is extremely
difficult for a
college student. Time
is constrained, Whole
Foods Market is expen-
sive; and fast food is
... well, fast food. The
school cafeteria does
provide healthy food op-
tions, but they can get
repetitive.
One possible solu-
tion to the problem is
simple — grow your own
vegetables.
Sure, your landlord
probably wouldn’t be
thrilled to find out that
you transformed your
front yard into your own
produce section. And
perhaps creating a to-
mato farm beside the
lacrosse field on campus
isn’t an option either.
Therefore, most
students are limited to
what they can grow in-
doors. Seeds are cheap,
and you can plant them
in anything from Chi-
nese takeout containers
to Tupperware. While
many are aware of win-
dowsill herbs, herbs are
certainly not the only
plant that can be grown
inside.
Sprouts are one of
the quickest growing
crops out there, and they
don’t even need soil. All
that’s needed is a mason
jar, a cloth or strainer,
some sprouting seeds,
water and a window-
sill. After the seeds are
soaked, they only need
to be rinsed once a day
to yield a crop. But the
best feature of sprouts is
that they have immense
nutritional value.
To give an idea of
just how nutritious they
can be, Alfalfa sprouts
are 35 percent protein,
and her friend Teddy
Q (Luke Grimes) flee
and seek someone to
settle Emma’s desire
for vengeance.
The couple comes
upon warrant officer
Sam Chisholm, played
by legendary actor
Denzel Washington,
who refuses their pleas
until he learns that
Bogue ran the gang of
ruffians who took over
the hamlet.
Chisholm recruits
a posse of gunsling-
ers to help him in
his endeavor to re-
take Rose Creek from
Bogue’s clutches. He
first finds a gambler
named Josh Faraday
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can West:
few other
M genres of
American cinematog-
raphy have so enam-
ored the populace in
such a visceral man-
ner. We love the ro-
mance, the danger,
the adventure, all
wrapped up in a torti-
lla of blazing saddles
and high-noon gun-
fights.
An original Ameri-
can western is a mas-
terpiece; however,
what can arguably be
better is a well-crafted
remake. That is ex-
actly what Antoine
Fuqua delivered in
his reboot of “The
Magnificent Seven,”
one of the most iconic
American westerns yet
produced.
Western remakes,
and remakes in gen-
eral, are usually de-
rided by movie fa-
natics as products of
crass commercialism,
culminating in an out-
cry against a general
lack of originality in
Hollywood that many
see as endemic of the
film industry.
To this, I say that
they might have a
point, and not solely
because crass com-
mercialism has ruined
several other great
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