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Due to the limited budget, most actors’ costumes were sourced second-hand or from other people’s closets. Props were largely made at the Billodue Makerspace on campus or were donated.

Bhananker, who portrayed Morticia Addams, the matriarch of the family, channeled her own mother when performing.

“It’s funny because I feel like Morticia and I are pretty different. When I’m [playing Morticia] I kind of feel like my mom, because there’s scenes where she plays the exasperated, angry mother who’s just like, ‘No one in this family can do anything right!’” Bhananker said. “But I have a lot of fun playing her because she’s very moody and she doesn’t pull any punches.”

The director for this production was Fourth-year Film major Navy Williams. After playing Orin Scrivello, the sadistic dentist in last year’s Inigo musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” she decided that she wanted to direct the following year’s musical.

(✍️) Julia Pilch
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(📸) Roan Tierney

The following is an excerpt from a May 7 interview. Initials indicate the speaker.

MD: How did you get into golf?

JK: My dad was the person who got me started in golf. I started when I was 3 years old, just with plastic clubs, but then just smashing balls all the way up to middle school. That is when I wanted to actually start playing golf competitively. I started playing tournaments and traveling around the world to compete.

MD: What made you decide to continue golf into college?

JK: During high school, I knew I wanted to play professionally and that I wanted to do golf in the future. Golf in college was just another step towards my goal.

MD: What keeps you motivated when playing golf?

JK: I would say the competitiveness. I love competition and competing against everyone. When I win, it feels like a reward.

(✍️) Maya DeGuzman
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(📸) Jandin Muromoto

This performance was followed by a performance of Maha Yeak by Dany Srey-Snow, the artistic director of Srey Selepak SEA. Srey Selepak is a contemporary Southeast Asian dance project that focuses on channeling the divine feminine through ritual, movement and innovation. The project honors the lineage of ancestral traditions and reimagines them into a contemporary Western context, all while creating new pathways for cultural expression and collective healing. Srey-Snow is also a co-founder (along with her husband) of Studio 7117, a creative studio and safe space in Pioneer Square which sold Khmer photographs and t-shirts at the showcase.

The first community speaker of the night was Bunthay Cheam, a community organizer and co-treasurer of the Khmer Anti-Deportation and Advocacy group (KHAAG). KHAAG is an organization that works on deportation defense for community members, specifically members of Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laos origins, as well as all those who may need help with deportation defense. Cheam touched on the importance of events such as these for creating connections across generations.

“It’s events like this that have different generations showing up,” Cheam said. “You have the students obviously, then you have the grandparents that may have more of a cultural tie back to the homeland… This space creates that intergenerational connection.”

(✍️, 📸) Diego Dumlao

With this information on hand, Vergeront and his team were on high alert, monitoring Canvas, and noticed the hack within minutes. They sent out information to students and faculty via Redhawks Hub starting at 2:17 p.m. May 7, advising users not to attempt to access Canvas until further notice.

Students were immediately concerned about the status of their data, as well as whether classes, midterms or homework assignments would be postponed. President of Student Government of Seattle U Diego Gonzalez had both students and professors bringing these concerns to him.

“[Professors] were also freaking out because they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know how to support students. They didn’t know when Canvas was going to come online. All that unknown caused a lot of uncertainty, which resulted in stress from everybody at the university,” Gonzalez said.

(✍️) Hadia Noor Ahmed
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(📸) Annabelle DeGuzman-Carino