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Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 has some ideas of her own. “Maybe it was those snow penis guys. They’re really into public art installations,” she says, referring to the notorious snow sculpture made two years ago by members of the men’s crew team. Could they be alluding to the other gender’s genitalia with an obscure reference to Georgia O’ Keeffe’s flowers? That might be a stretch. Students may not have been responsible...
Other finalists included Simon E. Chin ’05, Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, T. Josiah M. Pertz ’04, Joseph L. DiMento ’05 and Frederick K. O. Bengtsson...
...hard to pull off nowadays. Productions of Greek tragedies are almost always modernized to make them adhere to present-day aesthetics since audiences are not used to stylized choruses and lengthy speeches. The Athena Theater Company’s production of The Trojan Women, directed by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, was modernized, but perhaps not sufficiently so. Aside from occasional stirring moments, the play has the feel of a string of declamatory speeches...
...These student practitioners often bring up the Dalai Lama’s stance on Buddhism and science, that “if Buddhism and science don’t agree, we have to follow science.” This institutional willingness to be corrected is refreshing to many, including Myhrum, who spent the summer after her first year of college studying and meditating at a monastery through a Fo Guang Shan program. “I like that Buddhism is not completely in contradiction with modern science,” says Myhrum, who camped out to get a Dalai Lama...
...Myhrum, whose parents were Catholic and Episcopalian, often contrasts Buddhism with her original Catholic upbringing. Though she did complete her Confirmation classes, she turned away from a practice she found dissatisfying and overly rigid. “I just found it completely spiritually void and doctrinally bizarre,” the western Massachusetts native says...