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First Releases From 2018 You Should Check Out
Rhye: Blood When Rhye released their first album, “Woman,” it became a certain kind of cult classic among the not-so-tightly-knit independent music community. Songs like “Open” and “The Fall” seemed to be almost omnipresent
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On Scots Poems
Scottish poetry is beautiful. It has the limp of a wounded language and the slow, steady beat of a dark country’s people. I see a lot of grief, and a lot of war: grief
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I’ve Found Some Goodies
Today, if we like a song that happens to be playing in the environment we’re in, we Shazam it (maybe even take a screenshot, even if it’s listed in My Shazams); and perhaps we
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A Word From the Wise: Seniors’ Advice to Freshmen
BY ALİ ADEEB (ARCH/IV) For most of us, a new role in life presents a variety of challenges and some surprises, too. Advice from someone who’s already been there can help get us through
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With Shodo Exhibition, Spring Comes Early to the Library Art Gallery
A different kind of exhibition is being hosted by the Library Art Gallery this month. Titled “Haru–İlkbahar” (Spring), this showing of Japanese calligraphy (shodo) by illustrator Miho Murakami opened last Friday and will remain
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Music Club Offers One-on-One Music Instruction
As in previous semesters, the Bilkent Music Club is making it possible for students to receive individual instruction in music. These noncredit private lessons are open to all students and are held in the
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This Week at Bilkent Cinematics: Citizen Kane
Has there ever been a more influential movie than “Citizen Kane”? Not likely – and Orson Welles’ 1941 masterwork will be Bilkent Cinematics’ first offering of the new term, on Thursday, February 15. Welles’s
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Picture Challenge
BY YİĞİT GÜRSES (CS/PREP) his is the Bilkent News picture challenge, where each week I choose a shot taken somewhere on our campus and let the readers guess what it is. If you’re looking
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