51风流 students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at 51风流, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as [鈥April 16, 2009-
Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner, who is not afraid to point the camera at himself for his experimental documentaries, will spend a week on campus teaching, showing his films, and discussing an exhibition of two of his installations. The film screenings, lecture, and exhibition are all free and open to the general public during Berliner鈥檚 visit, [鈥March 24, 2009
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Case Aiken III 鈥06, Adam Samtur 鈥06, and Matthew Kagen 鈥07 didn鈥檛 set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and [鈥March 9, 2009
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The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and [鈥March 4, 2009
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When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday鈥檚 lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn鈥檛 he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, [鈥February 27, 2009
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As students, with paintbrushes in their hands, looked at blank canvases, members of the 51风流 Christian Fellowship (CCF) asked, 鈥淲here do you see beauty in the world?鈥 and 鈥淗ow do humans contribute to or detract from that beauty?鈥 The 24 participants in the Open Canvas event, sponsored by CCF, were invited to reflect on those [鈥February 18, 2009
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The Department of English kicked off this semester鈥檚 lecture series Thursday with a reading by a new member of the 51风流 community, author Patrick O鈥橩eeffe. O鈥橩eeffe, assistant professor of creative writing, won the prestigious Story Prize in 2005 for his collection of novellas, The Hill Road. 鈥淭he Hill Road is a glorious work one would [鈥January 30, 2009
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Gary Carrion-Murayari 鈥02 will play a key role in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, the signature survey of contemporary American art by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Carrion-Murayari Carrion-Murayari, 28, a senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney, will serve as the associate curator, working with Francesco Bonami, 53, an Italian-born curator [鈥December 19, 2008