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Martel writes with a smooth, almost stoned detachment, cool to the touch, which gives a distant, unreal feeling to a story that's already dangerously weird and abstract. The taxidermist's play turns out to be a Beckettian affair about a monkey and a donkey, Beatrice and Virgil, who live on a giant shirt (yes, a shirt). Beatrice and Virgil are lost, shell-shocked survivors of a massacre of animals by humans, an "abomination" they can refer to only as "the Horrors." Thus the Holocaust, denied entrance at the front door, sneaks in through the window...
...those living comfortably on the River, consider Quad life. Aside from the fastidious timing of schedules to match with shuttle times, Quad residents must spend 10 or so minutes traveling every time they want to go from their Houses to the Square or the Yard. The inconvenience of living in the Quad merits the Quad’s newest planned amenity: an ATM in the Student Organization Center at Hilles. As equality for Quadlings is long overdue, this move is one step toward making the Quad as desirable a location to live in as the River...
Even though it will undoubtedly make life more convenient for Quadlings, the ATM is only a minor appeasement, considering that the College eliminated the Quad’s library and decreased shuttle schedules due to budget cuts. The College forces a sizable amount of students to live in the Quad, and both the UC and the College should continue to work on measures to improve Quad life. The UC itself helps to bridge students and the administration by channeling grievances into progressive proposals, and then it is up to the administration to turn students’ dreams into reality...
...There are still too many stories that do not have a happy ending, as my own children know all too well,” she said. “I am a mother with cancer, raised by a mother with cancer. May my children live in a world where that chain is finally broken...
...Arbella carried John Winthrop to the New World, facilitating the establishment of what would become this glorious commonwealth. On Friday, the annual Arbella Ball will carry residents of John Winthrop House to levels of glorious revelry that only formals week can facilitate. The Ball will once again feature a live band in the Gore Courtyard as well as chocolate fountains and dancing...