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Students say that the current slate of Dramatic Arts courses could not accommodate a concentration because classes taught at the A.R.T. can accept only a limited number of students. As a result, many students are turned away from courses they want to take...

Author: By Monika L. S. Robbins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Make The Play | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

Exclamation points are an important piece of our written language, and they are perfect when we want to describe something that we would say in a raised voice. Dickens used it quintessentially when the Ghost of Christmas Present bellows, “Come In! And know me better, man!” as did Orwell when he described the chanting of the sheep in “Animal Farm.” However, in simple dialogue we rarely need it. But because the practice of using exclamation points in casual e-mail and text conversations has become so common...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...next time you are writing an e-mail and want to throw on some exclamation points for good measure, consider what that real-life situation would entail. Would you yell your response the same way you are writing it? Thanks...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Response | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...Fran hits a bomb—it was unreal,” Black added. “She knew that that could have been her last at-bat, and she didn’t want it to be. She proved that...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Splits First Two ILCS Games | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

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