To celebrate National Poetry Month, the final installation of the Newhouse Center for Humanities Distinguished Writers series featured Carolyn Forché and Valzhyna Mort. Forché and Mort are the first and last poets to be featured and did not disappoint.
As a chronic scaredy-cat, I thought I was safe when entering the movie theater to see what couldn’t possibly be more than a superhero spoof. I was wrong, and as a warning to any fellow weaklings, do not see “Kick-Ass” if you are scared of gore, people burning to death, blood, guts, rotting bodies or any combination of the above.
Indie singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen can currently be found on the reputable independent record label Kill Rock Stars, a small company that has built a name for leftist, feminist and anti-war political sensibilities channeled through an alternative punk rock sound that Thao exuberantly embodied with her expressive voice and resounding acoustic guitar at WZLY’s Spring Concert Extravaganza in Tishman Commons on Wednesday, April 21.
The setting was intimate in Houghton Chapel on Saturday night as the five musicians of the chamber music group, Musicians of the Old Post Road, ended their 21st season with “Conversation Galantes: Music of the French Baroque.” They sat in a small grouping close to the audience.
Saturday’s performance of “Bracko” and “Cassandra Float Can,” a collaboration between poet Anne Carson, dancer and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell, dancer Marcie Munnerlyn and artist Robert Currie, was in many ways a typical “artsy” event—sparse, intellectual, unconventional and a little baffling.
Despite the media’s portrayal of the economic situation, Irma Tryon and Folly Patterson, from the Center for Work and Service, and Sue Sours, from Wellesley Center for Women, argue that Wellesley seniors should have nothing to fear. The fields doing well include health, technology, education, government and utilities.
The practice of paying more attention to a cell phone than the situation you are in is quickly becoming a problem and even in our busy lifestyles, should be viewed as a sign of disrespect.
Adele Wolfson will assume the new position as director of the 3-College Collaboration on July 1, which aims to increase academic collaboration and communication between Wellesley, Olin and Babson by building on the three colleges’ geographic proximity and complementary educational strengths.
Last Wednesday, a large portion of the sophomore class scrambled to the Registrar’s office to submit the papers that would direct their courses of study over the next two years.
On Sunday, March 14, the city of Boston celebrated its Irish heritage with the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which has marched through the Irish neighborhood of South Boston since 1901.
As the stereotypical Wendy Wellesley barrels through her time here, she overthinks problem sets and underthinks her happiness, forgetting to consider that she might be happier as a Wendy Wheaton or Wendy Wesleyan.
Over Wintersession I came across an old pro-con list when cleaning my room for the first time since the beginning of summer. Today when people ask me if I like this school, I answer assertively that I would not prefer any other place.
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