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Nov. 5 -Back to the Future

Sarah Bedford, Staff Writer
November 4, 2013
Nov. 5 -Back to the Future

“Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?”

Nov. 5 is a significant date for “Back to the Future” fans. In fact, Nov. 5, 1955 is the date in which Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, travels in the DeLorean and Doc, played by Christopher Lloyd, conceived the idea for the “flux capacitor”. Doc sets the date in the time machine to Nov. 5 1955 to show exactly how the time machine functioned and Marty of course is able to experience time travel phenomena for a week before returning on Nov 12.

Fun fact about “Back to the Future”: When the script writers were completing research on scientific terms for the project, the term “jigowatt”was intended to be “gigawatt”, a million watts, but hearing the term mispronounced, writers placed it in the script incorrectly and so it remained through the films production.

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About the Contributor
Sarah Bedford
Sarah Bedford, Editor-in-Chief
Sarah Bedford is a senior Communications Studies and Political Science double major, working towards concentrations in journalism, public relations and rhetoric.
Sarah has been on the Beacon staff since her freshman year, acting as the Assistant News Editor the fall of 2014, the News Editor during her junior year and currently as the paper's Editor-in-Chief.
Along with her Beacon involvement, Sarah is also the President of the Commuter Council, Co-chair of Wilkes College Republicans and an E-Mentor the summer and fall of 2014 as well as a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society and Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society.
Sarah uses journalism as an outlet to combine her love of politics and writing while delivering news to the campus community.