Laughter amid depression in Rob. Players’ mainstage production
This semester’s mainstage production “You Can’t Take It With You” opened last Friday evening, March 5th. Schaeffer Theatre was filled with roaring laughter as Bates community thespians brought Kaufman’s and Hart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play to life.
If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be pleased to meet Clyde Bango ’11, the artist responsible for the exhibit of five King portraits on display in the Commons fireplace lounge through this week. Last semester, the Martin Luther King Day Committee sent an e-mail seeking proposals for the exhibit.
Music lovers on campus turned out in distinct droves and waves last Friday night, March 5th, for a WRBC-sponsored concert at The Benjamin Mays Center featuring Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, Small Black and James Cook ’12. The concert was heavily promoted by the campus radio station to get students listening and excited for these up and coming groups.
Monday evening, March 1st, Jason Goldman ’00 presented an in-progress chapter of his dissertation, “Open Secrets: Publicity, Privacy, and Histories of American Art, 1958-69,” to an intimate group in the Olin Arts Center. Goldman is a Ph.
Last Thursday, March 4th, Language Arts Live, organized by Assistant Professor of English Eden Osucha, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Jonathan Skinner, and Senior Lecturer of English Robert Farnsworth, presented novelist James Hannaham, author of the recent novel “God Says No.
After Letters to the Editor from my respected Bates colleagues were published last week, I thought it would be best to elaborate on style. Fashion is different for every person, but it also involves individual meaning and character. What one person considers “stylish” may not necessarily be what another person would consider.
The Village Club Series hosted the return of Ryanhood to the Benjamin Mays Center last Thursday night, March 4th. The crowd consumed chai and delicious cookies in giddy anticipation as VCS organizer Nicole Kahn ’10 welcomed the minstrels to the stage.
Last Wednesday evening, March 3rd, WRBC brought Hey Mama, the Cambridge, MA-based four-peice contemporary rock and roll band, to The Benjamin Mays Center. The band featured Avi Salloway and Celia Woodsmith, who have performed together at Bates in the past.
This week’s featured show, “The Midnight Society,” might sound cult-like, initially. But, hosts Caroline “Kit” Sheridan ’12 of Providence, RI, Claire Lampen ’12 of St. Louis, MO and P.G. Heffernan ’12 of Sewickley, PA only maintain a cult of happy listeners.
Ouch… Senior girl: This is the lowest of the low, when your freshman calculus tutor won’t even text you back. ~Library, Sunday morning Wait… what? Girl to guy: I don’t see what you see in the girls that you see things in. ~Who knows Someone needs to assign this girl more homework… Girl: …But is the library even open on Sundays? ~Smith Hear something funny that needs to be shared? E-mail your overheards to mrouvali@bates.
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