Volume 66 | Issue 4 | October 26, 2018
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Alexis Safoyan, senior public relations major as “Bella,” welcomes her nephews Caleb Leal, senior theater major as “Jay,” and Isaiah Torres, freshman theater major as “Arty,” as they move in with her while their father is away.
Fall production gets ‘Lost in Yonkers’
BY ABBY WOLF
ASST. A&E EDITOR The 2018-19 season of California Baptist University’s Wallace Theatre began Oct. 12 with a production of “Lost in Yonkers,” written by late American playwright Neil Simon. With a small cast, the show is highly regarded by many playwrights. In 1991, “Lost in Yon-
kers” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The show takes place in 1942 in Yonkers, New York, and follows a family that includes two teenage boys who are living with their grandmother, mentally-challenged aunt and a troubled uncle while their father is out looking for work. “Lost in Yonkers” starred Mark McMillan, senior theater major, as well as six other young
talents to the CBU stage. McMillan plays Eddie, the father of the two boys. He said his character was emotionally vulnerable and a caring man. “Eddie’s main flaw is that he is emotionally repressed because of his mother’s failures in parenting and his fear of his mother,” McMillan said. McMillan said he truly enjoyed working on
the “Lost in Yonkers” show. “It is one of the funniest yet most heartbreaking stories written by one of the best American playwrights of the 20th century,” McMillan said. “The play will have you busting a gut one second and weeping the next. It was masterfully
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Phishing scams on the rise for students, faculty BY SUMMER CLARK
benefit themselves by deceiving or pressuring others to do what October’s Cybersecurity they want. Dale Lee, director of InforAwareness Month has been prioritized by Information Tech- mation Security and Projects, nology Services at California sent out an email to students of CBU to inBaptist Uniform them to versity to raise take precauawareness of tions against the dangers of these scams. email phish“Phishing ing, which has most comaffected stumonly ocdents and faccurs through ulty. Dale Lee, Phishing director of Information email but does refer occurs when Security and Projects more genscammers aterally to the tempt to get personal information from vic- attempt to obtain confidential tims, such as bank account in- information through electronic formation, credit card numbers means,” Lee said. Other, less common forms and passwords. This year’s theme is “Don’t of phishing include phishing Let a Phishing Scam Reel You through voicemail (“vishing”) SMS (“smishing”) whaling and In.” Phishing cybercriminals can be manipulative and wish to SEE PHISHING | PAGE 3 ASST. NEWS EDITOR
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For the second week of October, we blocked more than 17,000 emails that were spam.
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Mark Hopper, freshman vocal performance major, listens intently for his cue while he and the rest of the Worship Collective record their version of the Christmas classic, “Joy to the World,” for their upcoming Christmas album set to release in December.
Worship Collective records Christmas album BY VICTORIA BUSZINSKI ASST. NEWS EDITOR
The Shelby and Ferne Collinsworth School of Music’s ensemble, Worship Collective, has recorded a Christmas album. The School of Music is
partnering with Prism Music and Tommy Walker, a contemporary music composer and songwriter, to release the new Christmas album. The ensemble recorded 11 of Tommy Walker’s “Generation Hymns” Oct. 11-12. The combined forces of
Male Chorale and Women’s Choir came together to make Worship Collective, the ensemble that occasionally sings in California Baptist University’s Chapel. Just a two-year-old ensemble, Worship Collective is one of the youngest performing
groups in the School of Music. Joseph Bolin, dean of the School of Music and director of Worship Collective, said the goal of the project is to revitalize hymns for which Walker writes new choruses.
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