With millions of users logging on everyday, Facebook is influential in the way people communicate in the Internet age. At an event on Saturday hosted by new club Debatable, two sides were prepared to give arguments about the social networking site’s benefits and drawbacks. The moderator took to the ...
This past Thursday through Saturday, May 2 through 4, the College’d theatre program presented the play “The Castle: A Triumph” by contemporary British playwright Howard Barker in the Seeler Studio at Mahaney Center for the Arts. The college website says the play is “blasting with humor, bawdiness, ...
The weather is so nice these days. After a long lasting winter, no one on campus can wait to put on spring apparel! Battell Beach takes over the role of the gym, and tables outside of Proctor become the new place to sit, replacing Proctor lounge. It is interesting to see how people love to expose themselves ...
It is almost the end of a school year again, which at the same time means a new cycle begins soon. A lot of organizations on campus are having executive board elections. Rachel Liddell ’15, an SGA presidential candidate, came to our ISO (International Student Organization) weekly meeting last Sunday. ...
On Friday, April 12, the dance department presented their rehearsal of “Dance, Music, Light: Performance Improvisation,” which will take place on May 3 and 4. Penny Campbell, senior lecturer in dance, discussed how dancers, musicians and a stage lighting designer study improvisation. During the ...
“17 ½”, the senior acting thesis of Sumire Doi ’13 and Rachel Goodgal ’13, opened last Thursday in the Hepburn Zoo. It featured nine scenes from eight writers, among which Doi wrote a monologue. “17 ½ is a breaking stage,” Doi said, “half is the state of in between, and the play is ...
The theatre department production this year is called Undressing Cinderella, which will take place in Wright Theater in April. Two weeks ago, the theater department, collaborating with the comparative literature program, presented Cinderella Symposium. At the symposium, Professor of Chinese Carrie Reed ...
Nature Transformed, which is on display in the Museum of Art through April 21, presents a selection of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of the Vermont quarry industry in the 90s. Burtynsky, a Canadian 2005 TED prize-winner, is a photographer who has achieved international recognition for his ...
I have been focusing too much on distinctions. Coming to a new culture, it is natural to encounter little differences to huge cultural shocks that remind me of all the distinctions between home and the place I am living now. I wrote about how Americans and Chinese have different perceptions ...
I interned at a Hong Kong-based weekly news magazine in winter term, and I made some observations on fragmentation of information by reading news everyday from news outlets in China and in the U.S. If I only have 10 minutes before I go to work and need to skim some news, I’ll choose the New York ...