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Editor-In-ChiefNatasha Jones

Assistant EditorsTrenton Canada

Jillian Carpenter

Design EditorChristin Rottenberger

Faculty Adv isorJeremiah Massengale

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UCTHEPATRIOT

New IDC Minor

The girls are back

Dr. Threlkheld Q&A

The day the Kohn stood still

A Q&A with the Editor

As a freshman, Natasha Jones was an assistant editor at The Patriot, but this semester shetook over as editor-in-chief of the award-winning campus newspaper.

In this brief interview, she discusses her experience as an executive staff member at ThePatriot and how she deals with controversy that comes with her job.

Q: How was your experience being an executive as a freshman?

Jones: It was really good. I felt kind of like I was winging it the whole time because I was like“I don’t really know what I’m supposed to do,” but I had some great people to look up to. Itwas very exciting because it just felt nice being with people; I knew I worked with people whoknew what they were doing and that was nice learning and I like[d] learning as I went becauseI was an executive staff member which held a lot of responsibility, but at the same time I wasjust getting into my journalism classes. So it was fun using everything I learned in class andapplying it and seeing how you could adapt the paper, as I knew it and I how I could help it.So it was nice having that correlating kind of system, but it could be overwhelming at timesbut I had great people to help me out.

Q: How is being editor-in-chief different than being assistant editor?

Jones: It’s a lot different because there are a lot of things that used to just always be there justto support and now I have to run it. As editor I have to double-check all those things becauseif it doesn’t get done it’s on me. So that’s new because before it was just like “well I need toask this” and offer to do it if I have the time or if it’s just something I can do, I can do it. Now,I need to be like, “Is this getting done?” with more open communication and being availableto do things. Basically just double-checking, making sure everything is going well, and I haveto plan. I didn’t realize how much planning went into it. Jeremiah [Massengale] was like, “Youhave to date where you assign articles and you have to have the date those are due and youhave to have a picture date where those pictures are due. Then you have to do layout and say,‘We are going to send it this time,’ because even if you change it you still have everythingplanned.”

It’s like a blueprint having it set up and we’ve still not settled into all that, but that’s some-thing I do next semester differently. I’ll lay it out and be like, “This is when we are going tohave our first meeting, this is when things are going to be due, this is when we plan to send.”That’s just something I didn’t see before and how important it was.

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A new minor in Integrated Digital Communication was approved by the uni-versity Catalog and Curriculum Committee this spring and will be available tostudents this coming fall semester. The minor, as a part of UC’s department ofcommunication, journalism, and theatre arts, is intended to focus specifically ondigital media and strategic communication. The main objective of the minor isto give students a set of marketable skills dealing with contemporary communi-cation and the Internet to further help them pursue careers after graduation.

Some of the jobs students can get with this minor, and these skills, are com-munication specialist, integrated marketing manager, community relations spe-cialist, account executive, public relations manager, digital marketing manager,digital media manager and social media coordinator. UC adjunct professor ofcommunication arts Jordyne Gunthert, who will be teaching many of the newclasses, said, “I think it’ll be great in a variety of majors, including business,psychology and human resources. It’s adaptable to any field; it doesn’t matter ifyou’re in health care or criminal justice. We want to provide students with actualskills in the workplace that are not only going to have them leave Cumberlandswith a degree, but with the skills they need to succeed.”

Integrated Digital Communication, which will be abbreviated to IDC whenused in class codes, will have five core classes: IDC 131 Introduction to Inte-grated Digital Communication, IDC 230 Audience Insight, IDC 231 CreativeStrategy in Advertising, IDC 235 Introduction to Video Production, which waspreviously known as COMM 235 Introduction to Television Production, andJOUR 430 Media, Technology, and Society.

Three of those five classes will be new to UC curriculum. IDC 131 Intro-duction to Integrated Digital Communication will introduce fundamentals of in-tegrated digital and strategic communication efforts. Students will look ataudience analysis, branding, advertising, social/digital/interactive media andpublic relations. This course will be offered in the fall semesters. Gunthert, whowill be teaching the class, said, “The intro course will be a survey of case studies,situation analysis research and contemporary communication strategies in ad-vertising, and external threats for companies.”

IDC 230 Audience Insight will explore emotional branding, internal and ex-ternal influences on consumer behavior, and group identity within the contextof media development for a variety of audiences. Students will get a fundamentalunderstanding of market research principles and the systematic study of peopleand culture.

“If you like psychology, sociology, it's going to be a lot of the research andfind what makes people tick, and what makes them purchase,” said Gunthert,who will be the instructor of this course as well.

In IDC 231 Creative Strategy in Advertising students will take a compre-hensive look at the fundaments of conceiving and executing an advertising cam-paign that uses both traditional and digital media. The focus will be on the studyof exceptional campaigns of today and on student-designed creative pieces basedon a creative strategy.

In addition to the five core classes students will also need six hours of elec-tive course work from 11 courses. Some of those courses are: 21st Century Com-munication, Social Media, Screenwriting in a Digital Age, Advanced VideoProduction, Documentary Film, Advanced Creative Strategy, Graphic Designand Media Law.

Assistant professor of communication John Varley, who will be teaching thevideo production courses for the new minor, said, “We thought it was a goodprogram to start a minor with because it really applies to anyone's job that’s com-ing out of school. Anyone could take this and incorporate it into whatever they'rejob is going to be, because so much communication is happening online.”

Varley is excited to see students have hands on work in addition to the con-cepts they will learn in class, and believes that being especially Internet savvywill give UC students an added bonus when they take the skills they’ve learnedoutside this campus.

Any students who have taken these courses prior to the development of thisnew minor will be able to have their credits count towards completion. Ideally,students adding this minor will be able to complete the required coursework intwo years by taking just two or three classes a semester.

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A recent string of winter weather resulted in campus closures at the Uni-versity of the Cumberlands February 16 and 17, the first time the universityhas consecutively cancelled operations in over 20 years. The weather alsoplaced the university on a delayed schedule for the remainder of that week.

WBIR.com reported snowfall at about 6.5 inches on Monday, February16, and snow showers continued well into Tuesday evening. The snow cov-ered much of the main roadways, making travel nearly impossible. Thoughthe road conditions had not improved much by Wednesday, UC alerted stu-dents and faculty that it would be operating on a regular schedule. Kyle Gilbert, vice president of support operations, stated, “Late Tuesday af-ternoon we evaluated the conditions of campus, the given forecast at the time,consulted with others throughout the county and took into account that thebulk of our undergraduate population live on campus and determined that wewould probably be okay to have class on regular schedule.”

Gilbert went on to say that by the time the snow started to fall again onWednesday morning, the majority of students and faculty were already ontheir way to classes and work, making it too late to schedule a delay. He as-serted that every precaution was taken to ensure the safety of UC’s students. Yet, because the university has a strict absence policy, many commuters feltobligated to attend classes despite the hazardous conditions, and while someprofessors notified their students that individual classes would be canceledfor the day, many others were regularly held.

Cortni Cox, a commuter to the university, said, “I wasn’t able to make itto class on Wednesday, so I had to email my professors and let them knowthat I wouldn’t be there. Due to the weather, I wasn’t able to make it to cam-pus until Friday, which means I missed two days of classes. When I finallydid make it on Friday, it was only because I had to rely on one of my parentsto bring me out.”

This account seems the same for every commuter required to attend lec-tures despite road conditions. Along with the absences, many who could notdrive to campus also missed important instruction and coursework.

“If there was an assignment given that day, I wouldn’t know about it untilthe next class,” Cox said.

The delays that resulted from the snow also pose a potential problem forstudents. The question now is how this will affect those that are enrolled inthose first and second period classes that were cancelled. Dr. BarbaraKennedy, vice president of academic affairs, has been at work contacting thedifferent department chairs in order to construct plans to ensure that neededcurriculum is not lost. She credits the strength of the faculty and the readinessof each professor to handle this situation.

“This institution has the ability, should this happen again, to go fully on-line for 8 and 9 o’clock classes and not skip a beat,” Kennedy said. “We don’twant to lose precious instructional time.”

Currently, the university does have a specific policy for extended periodsof delay. “Due to the unusual winter, the University of the Cumberlands is inthe process of reviewing the policy and procedures regarding weather-relatedclosures.” Kennedy stated. “After consulting with other administrators hereat the institution, including chairs, we are exploring avenues for ensuring un-interrupted learning opportunities. In addition, we are reviewing our en-hanced capabilities through iLearn that provides opportunities for professorsto upload assignments, and offer both synchronous and asynchronous ses-sions, which many of them did."

In regards to the absences accumulated by students who could not travelto class due to hazardous roads or other circumstances, Kennedy stated, “Wecertainly do want students to use discretion as they make travel decisions andwe do not want them to take unnecessary risks. The faculty here at UC isvery strong, and I fully entrust the education and well being of our studentsin their care. We have encouraged professors to be accommodating to stu-dents in this situation and most professors provided alternative assignmentsto those students who were absent."

Kennedy offers this assurance, "As we move forward, we value each ofour students and will endeavor to serve them through a variety of means andcircumstances."

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Did you know that when you step onto the Kohn Theatre's stage, you sharethat stage with a star? It's true! None other than Patricia Neal graced the stagethe day it opened February 2, 2001. The actress, who played alongside AudreyHepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and had many of her own starring roles, of-fered some her time at the open of the theatre.

Born in 1926, Neal began her career in her early adult years, much like anyordinary actress would do. But, the ordinary stops there. Unlike many actorsof her time, she was from a low-income, coal town formally known as Packard,KY, which is now the part of Whitley County just south of Williamsburg. Afterstudying theatre for two years at Northwestern University, she moved to NewYork, where she caught the eye of the reputable Eugene O' Neill, who becameher mentor. This mentorship got her the role as an understudy to Vivian Vance,who she soon replaced in "Voice of the Turtle." This began her glamorous roadto success, with two offers to star on Broadway, a seven year contract withWarner Brothers and a contract with Fox. She starred in several movies, in-cluding "John Loves Mary" made in 1949, "Diplomatic Courier" made in 1952,and "The Day The Earth Stood Still" made in 1951.

Unlike many actors, Neal's road to stardom was very short, lacking in failingroles, and without discouraging events. However, her career was not withouttragedy. Her life came with many struggles. Throughout her life, she sufferedthrough a troubled marriage, the death of one of her children, the devastatingbrain injury of another of her children, and a series of strokes that left her in acoma for three weeks. All of these things she went through at the peak of heracting career, yet she was still able to obtain several lead roles, an Oscar for

Best Actress in "Hud" (which co-starred Paul Newman), a Golden Globe forBest TV Actress for "The Waltons," and a Tony for Best Leading Actress in"Another Part of the Forest."

After the Grace Crum Rollins Center was built in 2001, the grand openingof the building and the Kohn Theatre took place with Patricia Neal giving aspeech. Dr. Keith Semmel, chair of the communication arts department, waspresent at the speech given by this performing inspiration.

Semmel recently reflected on meeting the legendary actress by saying, "Ihad just shown ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ in my film class the week before.I said, 'I just wanted you to know that people still look at your movies, I justshowed ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ in my class,' and she just giggled. Andshe said, 'You just wouldn't believe that I couldn't keep a straight face duringthat movie.' It helped to personalize the movie for me."

Patricia Neal was an inspirational actor and person. She offered some ofher inspiration and kindness to the Kohn Theatre and the people who were pres-ent at the opening. She is inspirational to small town actor hopefuls, such asUC senior Liz Guillermo.

"She's fantastic and it's amazing to think someone from Whitley Countybecame such an icon in film and on stage." says Guillermo.

Anyone who wants proof that someone from a small town can still havebig dreams needs only look at the door of one of the dressing rooms in the the-atre, where she signed her name.

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Magan Atwood is the director of AppalachianMinistries at the University of the Cumberlands.She also works as an adjunct professor within theChristian ministries department. In this interview,we talked about how she got involved with Ap-palachian Ministries during her time as a student atUC, her thoughts on how to have a successful col-lege ministry, and some of her favorite things aboutbeing in the field of ministry

So, what was it like being in the ministry whenyou were a student to coming back as the direc-tor?It’s been neat getting to see growth in the ministryfrom a student perspective and then from a staff per-spective. It’s been neat watching the growth of my-self. I was involved in these ministries as a student.I was a volunteer with Appalachian Ministries, andI never once thought, “Oh, maybe one day I’ll directthis.” That was not on my radar at all. So, Godshaped me through those ministries, and now I getto watch and see how God is shaping other students,and to be a part of that shaping has been really neat.My favorite thing about my job is watching studentsgrow in Christ and getting to be a part of that withthem.

In your opinion what are the key ingredients toa successful college ministry?I would say clear vision is number one. What’s yourgoal? What are you trying to do? Our mission state-ment here with Cumberland’s BCM is “To grow asdisciples by making more disciples throughout therelationships.” So, our vision is that we’re growingby helping others to grow, but that we’re doing thatthrough just really getting to know the person. Aclear vision I think we focus on is discipleship, andit’s not just about evangelism. Obviously, it is im-

portant. It’s not just about sharing the gospel but it’sabout helping those people who’ve come to believein Christ to really know what it means to followHim. Then I would say community- a deep sense ofconnection among the Christians that are in theministry that feel like they are being supported,loved and growing. The community helps enablethem to do what were asking them to do.

How did you get involved with the ministrywhen you were a student?I got involved when I started coming to the worshipservice on a weekly basis. I accepted Christ when Iwas ten, and then I started to get really serious aboutmy faith in high school and knew that I wanted toserve God and learn more about Him. I knew that Iwanted to do some type of ministry with my life,but I didn’t really know what that looked like, so Ijust started coming to our weekly service, and Iheard about all the opportunities. So, I tried out Ap-palachian Ministries and a little bit of everything. Iliked them all, so I chose a few to invest in andthroughout my years as a student, I served in lead-ership, and in my junior and senior year, I served asour BCM president, and from there, I just got aglimpse of what really goes on behind the scenesand what it means to administrate a ministry. I justkind of fell in love with that and fell in love withcollegiate ministry.

What advice would you give someone going intoministry?It is probably going to sound cliché, but keepingyour eyes fixed on Christ is absolutely the key. It iseasy for ministry to become like any other job, andI think all jobs are ministries, but it’s easy for it justto become like okay, “I lead this Bible study; Ipreach this message; I disciple this student,” just

like it would be checking off something else onyour checklist. So, making sure that you’re moti-vated by the love of Christ, and once you get intoit, you recognize you’re not just doing it becauseit’s your job. You know stepping back and givingyourself the time and space to really be re-moti-vated, reenergized to come with love and the moti-vation that you started with. So just kind of keepinga check on where your heart and motivation are.Are you really fixed on Christ or is this more aboutthe stuff your doing?

What are your favorite things about the min-istry?There’s a lot. I get to do what I love, which is serveChrist and love on people. I love to watch peoplebe transformed. I meet with a lot of students one-on-one for discipleship and watch those momentswhere they recognize what was holding them back,and I feel like I can really move forward. Watchingstudents really discover who they are, walking infreedom and confidence and not being held downby shame from their past. And then, just getting todo ministries, teach the word, love on kids- all thosedifferent things that I would be doing at some ca-pacity whether I had this job or not.

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The University of The Cumberlands has em-ployed David Threlkeld, known to the music stu-dents as “T,” since 1990. Threlkeld earned hisBachelor of Music Education degree from MoreheadState University and later his Master of Music in per-formance degree from Northwestern University.Threlkeld is a woodwind specialist along with coor-dinating the instrumental studies for the music de-partment and orchestrating UC high school jazzclinics. He recently attended the KMEA conferenceand he elaborated about his experiences with that,and what the students who also attended took awayfrom the conference. He also went on to explain histime playing with the Temptations.

Q: So, tell me about KMEA.A: KMEA is the Kentucky Music Educators Asso-ciation conference and that’s everybody for schoolmusic associations around the state, and that’s from

elementary to university level. We meet inLouisville. It’s usually the first weekend in February,and it lasts for close to half the week. There are lotsof things that go on: concerts, clinicians teachingpresentations- teaching things from how to play aninstrument to a child, or how to be a jazz musician.It’s a largely cast net. Then there are seminars forall different types of music education. There’s a lotof things going on, but it’s fun too because you getto see a lot colleagues of from around the state.After a period of years you get to know a lot of peo-ple my specific involvement this year is I'm cur-rently the college university representative forKMEA the main thing that person is in charge of isthe composition contest among college and univer-sity students. So I have to send it all in every yearand collect all the applications and I send it all offto judges and then the judges choose, and whoeverwins gets their composition performed. And I go on-stage introduce that person and hand them a check.

Q: How did KMEA influence the music students?A: I think it’s very important for students to partici-pate in this type of thing because what they do is itgets them out of the Williamsburg bubble to see thebands that are here in the county. They see bandsfrom all around the state they hear the best from allaround the state. So, what they think a middle schoolband could sound like may drastically change. Theyare really top-notch high school choir and they real-ize that high schools can do that. They hear all thebest of the best, and they get to listen to educatorsthat have been out there and doing this for a longtime. Have answers to questions that the studentsdon't even realize are questions yet. Kind of get ajumpstart and think about things and have somestrategies. But then I think that one of the biggestthings is just to meet people from the profession.One of the biggest and most important things isthey'll meet both experienced teachers and students.They'll establish connections.

Q: I heard you directed a jazz ensemble?A: This was the ETSBOA, which is East Tennesseeband and orchestra association, and they get togetherevery year in January on two different weekends.These are audition groups, and the students getplaced in one of three bands; red, white, and blue.They have clinicians come in and direct these bands.I had the middle band the red band. The top guy wasJeff Coffin, who is actually the saxophone player forthe Dave Matthews band, and it was fun for me tomeet him. It’s a crazy situation because you meetthem at seven the first night and have a concert atseven the next night, and you try to work up four orfive tunes— we did four. You have to get them allmatching style and matching balance and under-standing rhythmic feel. Then you choose solos andtry to throw that together in a day, but these guys arereally motivated. Their rehearsal schedule is reallygrueling for the students and the director, but youhave to do that in order to get that all done in a day.It was a great experience. They had fun and I had agood time.

Q: So, I heard you also played with the Tempta-tions?A: This was a lo-o-o-ong time ago. What they’ll dois- bands that have been around a long time like theyhave- they’ll take their core group and bring theirrhythm section. But, horn players, typically they re-alize that you can find, in any given region of thecountry, a pretty good horn player. So, they don’thave to pay that guy what they pay everyone else.They’ll come into a town and they’ll contract withwhoever the local horn guy is, and what you do isyou get together that afternoon of the concert andsite read through the whole music. You’re not evenplaying with the band there’s just a guy and he’sbeating on a cowbell. He’ll talk through the forms.Then that night you go up on stage. You don’t eventalk to the guys or go out and have dinner, so it’s notlike I traveled with them or anything, but I did playa couple show with them, so that was fun. Yeah, it’salways a neat experience to do things like that.

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Friends, a famous sitcom originating in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has finally made its way to Netflix. Being avid watchersof Friends, having it on Netlfix makes us want to do nothing other than binge watch every single episode. But, who has time for thatbeing a full time college student, too? That is when you pick just a few favorite episodes a week to watch such as one a day. Here areour top five favorite episodes. What will your top five episodes be for this week? Get on Netflix and get to watching!

1. “The One Where Ross Moves In” - Season 5, Episode 7Plot:

After the failed relationship between Ross and Emily, Ross hasto move in with Chandler and Joey. Chandler remembers how hor-rible Ross was as a roommate in college, so he and Joey attemptto kick him out. Also, Phoebe is dating a health inspector who triesto shut down every restaurant they visit. Rachel plays hard to getwith their neighbor Danny, because she thinks he is playing gameswith her.

Why it’s our favorite: Joey builds a fort in their apartment with Ross’s entire move

in boxes. Ross annoys his roommates, by telling them to quietdown, changing the answering machine greeting, and using his airpurifier, to make Joey and Chandler want to kick him out. Racheloveranalyzes Danny’s motives, which makes her act foolishly.

Favorite Quote: Joey- “You’re fake-laughing too, right?”Chandler- “Oh, the tears are real!”

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2. “The One Where Phoebe Runs” - Season 6, Episode 7Plot:

Joey finds a very attractive dancer from Australia and realizes he can’t flirt withher. Joey thinks that living together and flirting at the same time will cause too manycomplications between them. In the meantime, Rachel and Phoebe decided runningwould be a good way to bond and spend time together. After Chandler moves thingsaround, he tries to figure out where Monica had everything to get it all back in orderbefore she returns.

Why it’s our favorite: Rachel is straight up with Phoebe after feeling embarrassed to go running with

Phoebe. Phoebe shows Rachel how letting go and acting child-like while running actu-ally makes you feel better and more carefree. Phoebe doesn’t care what others think.Monica is OCD and doesn’t like her belongings being messed with or moved. Joey re-alizes that living with someone and flirting just isn’t going to work and may not be allit is cracked up to be.

Favorite Quote: Phoebe- “Me, I’m more free. You know, I run like I did when I was a kid because that’sthe only way it’s fun. You know? I’m mean, didn’t you even run so fast you thoughtyour legs were gonna fall off, you know, like when you were running towards the swings or running away from Satan?”[Rachel looks confused] Phoebe- “The neighbor’s dog.”

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3. “The One with the Jellyfish” - Season 4, Episode 1Plot:

While at the beach, Monica is stung by a jellyfish. Monica is in excruciatingpain and the only choice was for Chandler to pee on Monica’s leg to relieve herof some of this pain. Monica is very dramatic after this. After Ross kisses Rachel,Ross breaks up with Bonnie. Ross then decided to take full blame of what hap-pened between him and Rachel. They then get into another fight shortly afterbecause Ross tells Rachel he doesn’t believe that it was all him to blame.Why it’s our favorite:

Chandler is forced to urinate on Monica’s jellyfish sting, and they are veryreluctant to tell the rest of the group. When Ross chooses Rachel over Bonnie,Rachel decides to write Ross an eighteen page, front and back, letter telling himhow she really feels. Ross falls asleep reading it, so when Rachel asks him “doesit?” he unknowingly agrees with her. This quickly blows up in his face when heactually reads the letter, and realizes she wants him to take full responsibilityfor the failure of their previous relationship. Ross tries to hold it in, but the con-flict is too much. He shouts the famous line, “we were on a break!”

Favorite quote:Monica- “Alright, alright. I got stung. I got stung bad. I couldn’t stand. I couldn’twalk.”Chandler- “We were two miles from the house. We were scared and alone. We didn’t think we could make it.”

4. “The One with All the Resolutions”- Season 5, Episode 11Plot:

All the friends make New Year’s resolutions for 1999. Joey wants tolearn how to play guitar, so Phoebe tries to teach him with an unconventionalmethod. Rachel plans to stop gossiping, while Chandler says he will notmake fun of his friends for a whole year. Monica wants to take more pictures,and Ross wants to be happy and do something he has not done before every-day. Rachel accidently listens in on a secret, intimate conversation betweenMonica and Chandler, but still tries not to break her resolution.

Why it’s our favorite:Ross, keeping his resolution, wears leather pants on a date but they make

him sweat. When he excuses himself to the restroom to try to air them out,he is unable to put them back on and calls Joey for advice. Joey tells him toput powder and lotion on his legs to absorb the sweat and help them slideback on. This plans fails and Ross is left with a lotion, powder paste on hislegs and no pants.

Rachel hears a conversation between Monica and Chandler, so she nowknows about their secret relationship. Rachel tries to tell Joey without gos-siping, but eventually she figures out Joey already knows. Phoebe tries to teach Joey how to play guitar by naming cords by the shapeher hand makes such as “old lady.” Also, Chandler is in excruciating painwhen he is not making fun of any of his friends.

Favorite quote:Ross- “I’m gonna go out on a limb and say, ‘no divorces in ’99. Whoo.’”Rachel- “But your divorce isn’t even final yet.”Ross- “Just the one divorce in ’99. WHOO…”

5. “The One with the Dollhouse” - Season 3, Episode 20Plot:

Monica and Ross’s aunt dies, and in her will she leaves Monica with her doll-house she never let Monica play with. Phoebe and Monica decide to play together,but when Phoebe brings some of her toys Monica tells her they “just don’t go.”Phoebe leaves but returns with her own dollhouse. Joey struggles when his fellowactor doesn’t like him back. Chandler goes on a date with Rachel’s boss but istoo afraid to tell her he doesn’t want to see her anymore.

Why it’s our favorite: Monica is very controlling when it comes to her new dollhouse, and leaves

no room for imagination. Phoebe’s dollhouse is much more fun compared to Mon-ica’s traditional one, but sadly Phoebe’s entire dollhouse catches on fire. Rossfinds the fire and is forced to put it out by throwing the house in the shower, whileMonica is in it. Ross reveals to Phoebe the “aroma room” started the fire. Mostof the toys survived except for the “foster puppets.”

Favorite quote: Ross- “Wait a minute. The house is built on radioactive waste and an ancient In-dian burial ground? That-that would never happen.”Phoebe- “Okay, so you obviously don’t know anything about the U.S. govern-ment.

The Spice Girls, Destiny’s Child, and The Pussycat Dolls are surely just afew of the names that come to mind when someone mentions girl groups. How-ever, it’s been quite some time since a girl group has really taken people bystorm. All of that is beginning to change with Fifth Harmony. The girl groupconsists of Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke Hernandez, Camila Cabello, NormaniHamilton, and Dinah Jane Hansen, ranging in ages 17 to 21 years old and orig-inating from Florida, Texas, Cuba, Georgia, and California. Each girl audi-tioned by herself for the popular singing competition “The X Factor” in 2012but they were later formed into a group to save them from being sent home.The girl group placed third in the competition and was instantly signed toSYCO Entertainment, setting their career into motion.

Once Fifth Harmony were signed with SYCO, they began working on theirdebut EP, “Better Together,” which was released in October of 2013, selling28,000 copies in its first week and reaching number six on the Billboard Top200. “Better Together” is a very bubblegum pop, typical “young girls havingfun” sounding record. Following the release of the EP, the group was the open-ing act for British artist Cher Lloyd’s “I Wish Tour” as well as Demi Lovato’s“Neon Lights Tour.” Being the support act for these two tours opened FifthHarmony up to a wider audience and their fanbase, or “Harmonizers,” contin-ued to grow.

The group’s debut album, “Reflection,” was released on February 3 of thisyear selling 62,000 copies and reaching #1 on iTunes almost instantly after it

was released. The last girl group to have such high first week album sales werethe Pussycat Dolls back in 2008. This album is very different from their debutEP, having more of a mature R&B sound to it. To keep adding to their success,Fifth Harmony have won seven out of the 15 awards they have been nominatedfor, including a MTV Video Music Award in the Artist to Watch category. Thismade them the first girl group since 2008 to win a VMA. The group recentlykicked off “The Reflection Tour” on February 27.

Fifth Harmony have partnered with different charities and organizationssuch as the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, Girl Scouts of America, and Aréo-postale’s “Do Something” campaign to help empower today’s youth as well asdisadvantaged teens. The group is also very vocal about women empowermentand feminism. They believe that girls and women across the world are able todo anything they set their mind to, which is shown through a handful of thetracks on “Reflection” as well as stated in numerous interviews.

If you like pop music, catchy sounds, and are looking for music to blarethrough your car speakers while driving through town with your friends, FifthHarmony is the group for you. Be sure to check out their debut album “Reflec-tion” on iTunes.

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