Last week, I was in the Cole Memorial Chapel for the first time since my freshman year. It’s funny to think about how time has elapsed and folded in on itself during […]
Titane: a surrealist automobile fever dream about… love?
Authors note: Spoilers ahead! After over a year of theater closure, I wanted nothing but to be blown away by a movie. I longed to leave a theater speechless, tranced, sick and […]
In the Mood for Love: Frames within Frames
Everyone lives within their own reality, their own frame. Sometimes that frame becomes a fantasy. Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love is an exploration of what happens when that frame, that […]
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: horror & humiliation, hypervisibility, and invisibility
Have you ever seen yourself through another’s eyes? What did it look like? Was it ugly, terrible, horrifying? Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric, among other things, illustrates how a lens […]
The Velvet Underground: How we Remember the Dead
Memoir-turned-film Prozac Nation shows the story of Elizabeth Wurtzel during her college days, a girl clinically depressed, and perpetually obsessed with Lou Reed. The book is based on Wurtzel’s real experiences, and […]
Essential Skills for College Students
College students today are in a high-stress environment and under pressure 24/7. Though there are many ways college students learn to cope with the active campus life and course load, some lack understanding of the essential skills college students need to help them succeed.
Environmental Policy: An Earth Day Celebration
At an Earth Day event at Wheaton College, students participated in a Q and A about the importance of staying active in environmental policymaking. The panel event featured guest speakers Professor Bradford […]
Change
Every passing year, every month, week, day, hour, minute, second, or millisecond, even the smallest possible measurement of the manmade construct of time contains change.
Is Chess a Marker For Political and Social Strife?
Santiago Wills describes how the 2010’s chess scene lacks compelling stories in a 2012 article published by The Atlantic titled “How America Forgot About Chess”. According to The Atlantic article, Author of […]
Daft Punk Splits
After 28 years of making music, Daft Punk is officially breaking up according to the duo’s publicist, Kathryn Frazier. She gave no reason as to why they are retiring. The announcement was […]