Every campus has its quirks. Clockwise from top: A makeshift branch instillation outside Heubeck; a sculpture rests in peace outside Van Meter Hall; an unidentifiable reptile emerges from sticks and stones behind the Julia Rogers Library; a red man lurks through campus forest trails.
"Jurassic Park" cost $63,000,000 dollars to make, and was one of the first movies to popularize photorealistic computer-generated imagery. Wham City art collective's latest theatrical offering, an irreverent sendup of the movie, titled, "They Should All Be Destroyed," is appealing precisely because it's none of those things.
The assignment to "work on a novel" is usually not on the average student's daily to-do list. A few have added the ambitious task to their schedule - three English majors are working on novels under the guidance of Madison Smartt Bell. Cassie Brand '09 edited her novel as an Independent Study last semester, Sarah Kendall '08 is working on an independent study this semester, and Tim Quinlan '08 is working on his novel as a senior thesis.
A wave of the freshest possible air breathed into every cell in their bodies. The dim smell of cramped dust and linoleum floors was cut down by the sweet, 60 degrees breeze that blew off the river. The sky spilled out and opened up above them, wider and wider until it filled the entire upper sphere of the eyes.
When my grandmother "friended" me on Facebook, it was obvious that the "FB" fad as we knew it was over. My grandmother, who still believes in ancient remedies such as pouring hot olive oil in your ear to cure an ache, just doesn't seem to fit in with the wall-posting, photo-uploading mania that has swept over our generation.
If there was ever an assembling of every hipster in the Baltimore-area, it occurred on February 28. Baltimore-based Beach House had their record-release at The G-Spot Audio/Visual Playground, which is really just a large art space in one of those ominous factories that line Falls Road in Hampden.
