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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Campus Bands Preview

Connor Guy September 3, 2009

When ASWC brings major bands and artists to campus each semester, they are oases in a desert of musical entertainment, serenading us or sparking a wild night of dancing. In recent years, we've heard the...

Summer flicks

Becquer Medak-Seguin September 3, 2009

For cineastes like myself, summers are an enigmatic haystack, ripe with farcical blockbusters and quixotic art house films that frequently leave our voracious movie appetites longing for something so simple,...

The Fiery Furnaces –– I’m Going Away (2009; Thrill Jockey)

Andrew Hall September 3, 2009

The Fiery Furnaces: the New York-based duo of Matt and Eleanor Friedberger: has made a name for itself by being, more than anything else, increasingly weird and exhaustingly prolific. By the end of this...

Best Senior Writer: Jake Kinstler

Mike Sado May 18, 2009

Jake Kinstler has enjoyed success on the Harper Joy Theater stage with his plays   "Killers, Priests, Sinners & Whores" and "Can We Love After The Apocalypse?"   Now, the wordsmith has been chosen...

Best Senior Artist: Tyler Calkin

Gillian Frew May 18, 2009

If Tyler Calkin had to live in one building on campus, it would be the Fouts Gallery (clearly).   Selected by his peers as "Best Senior Visual Artist," Calkin sat down with the Pioneer to answer a few...

Best Senior Filmmaker: Ben Kegan

Sara Levy May 18, 2009

For as long as he can remember, senior Ben Kegan has wanted to make films for a living. "As a kid my friends and I would 'play' film during recess. We rehearsed scenes on the playground, and then the...

‘K-Dub’ rocks harder, better, faster, stronger

Jamie Soukup May 18, 2009

Since January 1971, KWCW 90.5 has been regularly broadcasting to student and community listeners. There have been many significant events in the station's history, from the initial request for student...

Best Senior Dancer: Ozzie Angel

Iris Alden May 18, 2009

Though Ozzie Angel did not always know he wanted to be a dancer, dancing was a part of his life for as long as he can remember. "I've been dancing all my life because I was raised in Latin America....

Music Video Meltdown: Grad Edition

Mike Sado May 18, 2009

Oh, this song.   I keep on thinking Asher Roth is part of a viral campaign for an upcoming comedy; alas, "I Love College" is real, and it features doozies like "I wanna go to college for the rest of my...

Best Senior Instrumentalist: Alex Abrams

Alyssa Fairbanks May 18, 2009

Alex Abrams, a music major with an emphasis on performance, plays the cello. He has played the cello for 13 years. Abrams said that he has only really been playing the cello seriously for four of those...

Best Senior Singer: Aisha Fukushima

Alethea Buchal May 18, 2009

Aisha Fukushima is a recent recipient of the prestigious Watson Foundation Summer Fellowship, which will pay her $28,000 to travel to Morocco, India, South Africa, United Kingdom and Senegal to study raptivism...

Best Senior Actor: Rosie Brownlow

C.J. Wisler May 18, 2009

After four years of intense focus, hilarity, and devotion to theater, senior Rosie Brownlow is saying goodbye to Whitman College and Harper Joy Theatre. The winner of the Pioneer's Senior Artist of...

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