First-year Natalie Jamerson's Halloween costume is taking over her room. “There's more cardboard than living space in my double," she said, before reassuring me, “No injuries yet."
Her costume? A house.
“From the Pixar movie 'Up.' It's a quirky old house that the main character of the movie attaches—I think it's 470,000 balloons that he attaches to his house through his chimney," said Jamerson.
Director Chris Petit is a man with a vision.
“You want to make that more of a struggle," he says to Lady Capulet, portrayed by sophomore Caitlin Goldie, as her husband, senior Spenser Meeks, pulls her away from her daughter's still form.
At rehearsals for Whitman's production of Romeo and Juliet, the cast and crew wrestled with details while I huddled in the back row with sophomore props technician Niccole Cluff and talked shop.
"Aren't you going to ask me about my book?" asked senior Dena Popova, an international student from Bulgaria, at the wrap-up of a conversation concerning her latest film script entry in the NISI MASA International Screenwriting Competition.
“The Oresteia" is a difficult play, not one to treat lightly. It is a complex play in its poetic literacy, story and social complications. The famous Greek trilogy-tragedy by Aeschylus follows the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, her subsequent murder by her son Orestes (after whom the trilogy is named), and his trial. The original play is packed with murder, psychological torture, gender roles, personal vendetta and divine fatalism. It is a daunting task to direct in a compelling way for a modern audience.
You're getting ready to finish up your English degree. If you're writing a thesis, you're facing an important question: would you rather write seventy pages on a critical analysis of James Joyce, or seventy pages of your own short stories?
Varsity Nordic has been reborn. Don't tell them that the name doesn't belong to them, though.
"If the ski team comes back, they're going to have to get a new name," said senior Peter Richards, a member of the "new" Varsity Nordic. "Otherwise it would be awkward, like wearing the same outfit someone else is wearing."
A dunk tank. Cotton candy. Acoustic music. Slip ‘n' Slide. All are things that you might reasonably find on a college campus any given day in mid September.
Picture a world full of social decay, inlaid with corrupt people, violence, war and hedonism—a world where the most benevolent and philanthropic of people turn away in disgust at the nature of this society and perhaps the nature of humanity itself.
Everyone knows it. Print journalism will (lamentably) soon encounter its bereavement in old compost piles, recycle bins and prepubescent pyromaniac's basement laboratories all across the country.
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