Archive for January, 2006

Drama Board to Present Mainstage Musical “Lucky Stiff”

By Allison McCarthy at 7:08 pm

Ever since the first semester thespians and drama fans alike have been talking about Drama Board's possible upcoming main stage musical, "Little Shop of Horrors." Naturally, there was a great [...]

Weekend roundup: Orchestra and more movies

By Micaela Baranello at 7:14 pm

Don't have any classes this afternoon? Kick off the weekend early with a Philadelphia Orchestra matinŽe at 2:00 at the Kimmel Center. The program is eclectic- Mozart's sparking Symphony No. [...]

SaBooge Theater brings atmospheric "Fathom" to campus

By Alicia de los Reyes at 7:13 pm

SaBooge Theatre consists of five actors, two musicians in one unique combination. This Saturday they will bring "a new kind of theater" to Swarthmore in their original production, Fathom.
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Brain and language: Insights from studies of American Sign Language

By Todd Friedman at 7:13 pm

As opposed to popular views of sign language, Dr. David P. Corina, Ph. D. of the University of California's Departments of Linguistics and Psychology, asserted that sign language is no [...]

Campus movie screenings in limbo

By Micaela Baranello at 7:13 pm

A major change in campus life may be approaching: the end of public student organization-sponsored film screenings on campus. Under fire from a licensing company for allegedly illegal public showings [...]

Richard Eldridge on "The Ends of Literary Narrative"

By Daisy Yuhas at 7:15 pm

Yesterday in Kohlberg's Scheuer Room, Professor of Philosophy, Richard Eldridge, delivered a lecture on "The Ends of Literary Narrative." Professor Eldridge's lecture discussed the reasons for the use and creation [...]

Excess SBC funds await student proposals

By Michelle Kim at 7:15 pm

To all students: Come now, many of you must have at some point been sitting in Sharples when an amazingly awesome (and possibly alliterative) idea for a party hits you…and [...]

Crackdown on alcohol funding, but not Swat social life

By Lauren Stokes at 7:14 pm

The new alcohol policy does not change the rules so much as make them harder to break. "In my mind," said SAC co-director Jenna Adelberg, "there has been no policy [...]

Search for Bob Gross' replacement continues

By Michelle Kim at 7:17 pm

With Bob Gross' final year as Dean of the College half over, the dean search committee is hard at work considering who might take his place. Through weekly meetings and [...]

What are the stained glass windows in Mary Lyons?

By Todd Friedman at 7:16 pm

Around the Mary Lyons main kitchen, there are several antiquated, stained glass windows. Five of the windows sport the names of the colleges Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Harvard, Smith, and Princeton. [...]