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Hard work has its rewards. Just ask seniors Amy Elizabeth Long and Theresa Kevorkian. 

The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê community will be seeing some familiar sights on the big screen this Thursday night when the Hamilton Movie Theater shows Placebo, a new short film by Henry Prince ’07 and Jacob Lindauer ’08. Directed by Prince and produced by Lindauer, Placebo was filmed on and around °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê’s campus last October. It was a […]

Eight students from the WRCU radio station and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê Activities Board have taken what they learned at a major conference in Texas and adapted it to their organizations on campus. The group attended the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas, which is actually a triad of three separate festivals: music, film, […]

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê’s Earth Day celebration transformed the Ho Science Center atrium into an environmental carnival. Live music by student bands and a vegan barbeque complemented the table displays representing this semester’s Green Summit initiatives. Following the planting of 200 tree saplings on the former university ski hill, students, faculty, and community members gathered to learn more […]

According to Buddhist teaching, giving is an act that can transform and purify the mind. On Tuesday at the ALANA Cultural Center, approximately 30 members of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê community took part in a 2,500-year-old Sri Lankan Buddhist ceremony of alms giving called a Dana.

  Even though it has been 17 years since Kirk Bloodsworth, wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for rape and murder, was freed from the confinement of a jail cell, the memories of his incarceration still haunt him. “It’s a constant struggle. You never escape the pain of being locked up for a crime you […]

Author Elizabeth Strout, who taught at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê two years ago and will return to campus this fall, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Strout won for her book Olive Kitteridge, a series of 13 connected short stories centered on a school teacher living in a hardscrabble town in coastal Maine. The Pulitzer citation […]

Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, will visit °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê in October for the next edition of the university’s Global Leaders Lecture Series. Blair is scheduled to give a public talk at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in Sanford Field House. Ticket information will be released in August.