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Jenny Yang ’00 brings humorous, passionate story to campus

Upon entering last Friday’s stand-up performance by Jenny Yang ’00 — late, I might add — and finding her personifying her bare stomach, I couldn’t help but be taken aback, and immediately excited, for the next hour. I suppose I shouldn’t have
April 9, 2015

Audiences spend a few hours in Ross’s garden of theater

Patrick Ross’s Directing Thesis, “Here in My Garden,” took audiences in the four times-packed Frear theater across time and space to a place where “infamous” women converge. The hauntingly beautiful score, engaging performances, and often hysterical script made up for the two
April 2, 2015

McKinney thoroughly analyzes anti-racist comics in lecture

On Tuesday, March 25 Mark McKinney, a professor of French at Miami University in Ohio, delivered a lecture titled “Antiracist Comics by Charlie Hebdo’s Luz” in the Scheuer Room. This talk, his second at Swarthmore, addressed the specific satirical methods used by
March 26, 2015

Funk group brings socially conscious music, dance to campus

The audience hurriedly shuffled onto the stage in Pearson-Hall Theater, gyrating in what could only be described as a crude attempt at a distorted Cupid Shuffle. What they lacked in technical talent, however, they more than made up for with enthusiasm
February 26, 2015

McCabe exhibit proves and takes pride in Black life on campus

“It was as if blacks were invisible,” reads a quote from an anonymous Swarthmore alumna, understated and in tiny font on the wall directly across from the entrance to McCabe Library. Referencing the presence of Black students on Swarthmore’s campus and carefully
February 18, 2015

Bryan Konietzko gives presentation to packed audience

Last Saturday night, Bryan Konietzko, the co-creator of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra,” lectured on the artwork and development that went into the production of the series. Korra is an animated TV series that aired on Nickelodeon from
February 12, 2015

Candidate gives talk on Afro-German cultural movements

Hip-hop is often thought of in a strictly American context without consideration of its international iterations and nuances. Consequently, the implications of the genre and its embedded messages in other countries are rarely considered from an American perspective. Vanessa Plumly, a PhD
February 12, 2015
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