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...teach an old club new tricks. So it should come as little surprise that one year after the administration’s transplanting of office space from Yard basements to the new Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), the paradise of happy extracurricular group members commingling in a modern community has not yet materialized according to its planners’ hopes. And yet, in its reallocation of space at SOCH for the upcoming year, the administration has apparently decided to lay the blame for the troubled transition at the feet of the very student groups that the center was designed...
After graduation, Halberstam joined a small Mississippi daily newspaper, but he continued to file reports for The Crimson from the Deep South. His dispatches were sometimes critical of civil rights activists (see here and here) and may seem outdated to the modern reader. But then again, he was only 21. And while others from the Class of ’55 were working as copy boys at big-city dailies, Halberstam already had set off on his lifetime journey into journalism. “I wanted to report, and I was ready to report, not get coffee for someone else...
...reflective and philosophical witches of “Wicked” or even the computer-animated ogres of “Shrek,” often warp the traditional once-upon-a-time ideal to reach a conditional, complicated “happily ever after” in modern updates of classic fables...
...Everything’s Gone Green” is a strong first showing by novice screenwriter Douglas Coupland, who has a long history as a novelist, and who popularized the term ‘Generation X.’ The film, like many before it, follows a modern young loner as he struggles to find meaning and direction in life as everything around him swirls dangerously out of control. Director Paul Fox strikes an unexpected level of originality by taking advantage of his talented cast and presenting a consistently comfortable atmosphere throughout the film. Coupland’s script layers...
...difficulty borrowing one from a friend. Due in large part to these limitations, museum podcasts are still a very new concept. Hays speculates that they are offered in only about 25 museums across the country. She says her project was inspired by a 2005 podcast for the Museum of Modern Art in New York that promoted a more personal approach to canonized art. Hays felt this approach was particularly appropriate for a museum like the Sackler. “A lot of people, fairly so, think ancient art is pretty boring. Often the objects are exhibited mostly as a testament...