Author: Scout

Senior Adam Esclamado has no issue with public speaking. Standing in front of around 50 members of Isang Bansa (IB), the on-campus Filipino Cultural Club at LMU, Esclamado talks with ease and animation. Dressed clad in comfortable basketball shorts and a matching shirt, Esclamado appears comfortable and at ease on…

This past Monday night, a group of 11 students stood in a circle, clapping with their hands to keep a beat. One student, a tall, lanky boy, states his name loudly on the beat, followed by the pose of an elephant. With one arm extending from his nose, he moves…

Throughout E.T.A. Hoffmann’s supernatural story The Sandman, the main character Nathanael’s unstable mentality depicts him as a deeply fascinating yet disturbed character in the current scholarship discussing the text. Haunted by a doppelganger figure with identities through Coppelius, Coppola, and Spalanzi, Nathanael’s mind slowly unravels in front of the reader…