It all started on June 12, when the University of Nebraska was approved to join the Big Ten Conference beginning July 1, 2011. Shortly after, Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, was chosen as the site of the conference’s first championship game on Dec. 3, 2011.Now the Big Ten has partnered with Fox Sports to televise the first five conference championship games from 2011 through 2016. The deal was ma...

by: Amanda Murphy, Contributing WriterBreaking up is difficult, especially when your boyfriend just turned into a zombie and is trying to eat you. What does a person do to deal with such a dilemma? Break into song and dance, of course. “Musical of the Living Dead” is an original musical performed by the Cowardly Scarecrow Theater Company. It’s a “zom com,” or zombie comedy, complete with an original soundtrack, romance,...

Throughout the decades,  America has seen the many faces of Michael Moore. His first feature, Roger and Me, which opened in 1989, was nearly accidental. Following the philosophy of “keep the camera rolling,” he edited anecdotes and random encounters into a hodgepodge where 70 percent of the film held a common theme.His only fictional work, Canadian Bacon, came in 1995 and simultaneously showed his lack of skill in craf...

Although film is a concrete form of art, the interpretation of the final product often varies by viewer. While the light and sound of the movie registers similarly in our brains, the constructed meaning we create outside the purest facts of plot is often entirely our own. Film is an active and engaging art form in which the audience creates their own living narrative as they bear witness to the static stimuli on the screen.  Th...