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Over the past year, this column has guided you through the exciting and intimidating world of student life at the big H. Sadly, it's come to an end. That's right: the last Our Town. OK, stop crying. We have explored the worlds of art, drama, music, activism, housing, food, sports, fire doors, key cards and "dropping the H-bomb." Now that reading period has arrived, the final column will venture into the dark underbelly of student life, the world the administration ignores in its press releases...
Rhinoceros, playing at the Loeb Experimental Theater, has a deceptively simple scenario: a provincial town is struck with a sort of a...well...epidemic. One by one, ordinary citizens start turning into rhinoceroses. At first the people struggle with disbelief, but as more and more victims go crashing through the streets trampling cats and knocking down stairs, the survivors become engaged in a struggle to retain their humanity. Eventually, only Berenger, a lackluster drunkard wrapped in a haze of brandy and paranoia is left to hopelessly affirm his own humanity as everyone around him joins the unstoppable herd of rhinoceroses...
...loser on all sides," he says. "The NBA instigated this lockout, and what did it gain? A waste of time, money and goodwill for both the players and the league. There's no great victory here." At least the end was convenient: Hundreds of players were already in town to vote on the league's previous offer -- many of them intent on replacing Hunter, who they felt was being too stubborn -- and they eagerly ratified the new deal in a 179-5 vote. Afterward, players gave the usual homilies about healing rifts and making this up to the fans...
...students were leaving town on the morning ofDec. 18, a parent searching for a missingfirst-year contacted the police. HUPD responded toWigglesworth Hall and located the student, who wasfine...
...want to be a Jerusalem cop? As if the tinderbox of Jews and Palestinians living cheek-by-jowl in a city sacred to both isn't volatile enough, Millennial fever is bringing to town all manner of Christian fundamentalist whackos in search of apocalypse. "The major concern of the police is that some of these groups believe they need to create Armageddon in order to bring back Christ," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They plan to do that by destroying Muslim holy sites in order to provoke...