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...Square. This March, a group of daring demonstrators for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shed their inhibitions and stripped down for their cause. The rally spurred much criticism, as it was a display viewed by many as a perpetuation of PETA’s penchant for shock tactics. Though it’s difficult to denounce students for taking part in a protest, the PETA incident wasn’t worthy of undergraduates’ time. Students must be vigilant when it comes to differentiating between legitimate, worthy lobbying and over-the-top demonstrations. The latter...
Later that week, Fritsch again demonstrated her penchant for the heroic, as the Crimson faced off against Yale and Brown in the penultimate Ivy weekend. With the team’s Ivy title hopes on the line, she batted 6-for-13 with three home runs and drove in six runs...
Explaining his penchant exploring unchartered territory and directing independent student works, Broadwater says, “I’m tired of seeing the same plays over and over. [Although] revisiting classic texts is important and extremely fun, I think that we need to expand our canon and search beyond Shakespeare, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams for new plays to do. Performing a student-written play is almost always worth doing, unless of course the play is terrible, which sometimes they...
Explaining his penchant exploring unchartered territory and directing independent student works, Broadwater says, “I’m tired of seeing the same plays over and over. [Although] revisiting classic texts is important and extremely fun, I think that we need to expand our canon and search beyond Shakespeare, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams for new plays to do. Performing a student-written play is almost always worth doing, unless of course the play is terrible, which sometimes they...
Despite this penchant for imitation, Kweller seems concerned for most of On My Way with the “realness” of his life; he defiantly yells, “Tell me all the rules, girl / I just wanna get’em wrong,” and notes of a lover, “Yeah, you are living life the way you feel, and that is real.” It’s when this earnestness reaches the right balance with Kweller’s admiration of his musical predecessors that the finer moments of the album...