Opinion Writing Ceccarini (JOU-3363)

  Courtney Ceccarini Q News A drink to take the edge off is a controversial phrase used to describe the consumption of alcohol as a way to destress. A phrase director, Thomas Vinterberg, explores in the 2020 Danish film, Another Round. Another Round follows Martin (Mads Mikkelson), a high school history teacher experiencing issues in his personal and professional life and his three colleagues, Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) and Peter (Lars Ranthe), as they embark on an experiment based on the Norwegian psychiatrist, Finn Skårderud’s, hypothesis testing the correlation between alcohol and a better quality of life.  During the experience the men are required to keep their BAC at or above a 0.05% during workdays due to the theory that humans are born with a BAC 0.05% too low. At first, the experiment goes exactly as planned, the men all experience a more euphoric way of life. Their teaching style becomes more engaging and they are all around in a state o...

  Courtney Ceccarini Q News  High Point University’s newest fine dining experience, Kazoku, has made its way to Panther Commons. A hibachi restaurant that holds 60 people at a time and offers 3 courses that include soup and salad, entree, and desert. As an effort to promote inclusion and unity the university named the restaurant Kazoku because of its origin meaning family.  While at Kazoku students are seated at a table of 10. Sitting at the table with other people not in your party is how the restaurant resembles families; however, this effort does not come off the way as intended.  Each time I have dined here the table is awkward and uncomfortable. No one talks to each other and it feels more like eating with strangers. Kazoku is everything you would expect a hibachi restaurant on a campus to be.  We ordered the chicken broth soup and the miso soup. While I thoroughly enjoyed the chicken broth soup the tofu in the miso soup was cold, which is not something you...