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(Ir)reverence: Celebrating Arrow of God and Chinua Achebe’s Influence

The week before fall break saw (Ir)reverence: A Multimedia Conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s influential novel “Arrow of God,” hosted by the entire Tri-Co, aimed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the novel “Arrow of God”

October 23, 2014

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Dual film screening asked to whom history belongs

Hong Kong-based filmmaker and film professor Louisa Wei let her work speak mostly for itself when she presented it to a smattering of students and other community members on Tuesday, October 7 in the LPAC Cinema. She introduced her movie, “Golden Gate

October 9, 2014

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The Red Lips Project seeks to empower subject, audience through unified symbolism

The Red Lips Project, run by Aditi Kulkarni ’17, has been gaining attention across Swarthmore’s artistic spheres. The project’s main premise is simple: to take pictures of women wearing red lipstick, and attach a quote of them saying what makes them feel

October 9, 2014

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Olde Club basement, a marvel already missed

It has rightly been said that all great party spaces, like works of art, either establish a culture or dissolve one — that they cultivate, in other words, special parties. Among these cases the origins of Olde Club’s charismatic and authentic basement

October 9, 2014

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A masterclass with definitely human pianist Poletaev

“I don’t get —” intervened Ilya Poletaev, pianist extraordinaire, frustrated, with his chin in his hand, brow furrowed. “I am not getting the consistent narrative. Some of it has to do with balance, for example, when you play this —” The melody

October 2, 2014

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Galvez giving voice to the disparate diasporic Latino

In José Galvez’s talk on Wednesday, September 24, many of the ambiguities present in the exhibit shown in McCabe’s atrium from August 26 to September 26 were clarified. The talk began with Galvez being introduced by Professor Milton Machuca-Gálvez, who was responsible

October 2, 2014

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Baenziger considers industrial intricacy, creative stimulus in artist talk on exhibit

Recently, artist and Haverford College faculty member Markus Baenziger gave a lecture on his work and his new exhibit, “Wayside,” which has been open in the List Gallery since September 10. To open, exhibit curator Andrea Packard briefly recounted the process for

October 2, 2014

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Between fiction and essay with Xiaolu Guo

The frame of a screen hangs on a wall before several rows of chairs in Swarthmore’s hallowed/multipurpose Eugene Lang Performing Arts Center. Several students and professors are sprinkled about, waiting for the film to begin in an abstract pattern with no reason

September 25, 2014

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An eye-opening walk in the park (or, arboretum)

The Scott Arboretum is as much a source of beauty as allergic reactions: a collection of taxonomically classified plants. It is accessible to individuals for free at any time, and to organized tour groups according to a regular schedule. On Sunday, September

September 25, 2014

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Behind the scenes at Rhythm n Motion auditions

“I love to dance,” they all said, in various ways. Rhythm n Motion hosted its fall auditions this past Sunday, September 14, from 1:30 to 5 p.m., and my pride was one of its victims. I do not love to dance. Dancing

September 18, 2014

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