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Elf Alert!
Monday morning, first-years awoke to newspaper-sealed doors, heaps of candy, poster-laden walls, and other such novelties. Elfing had officially begun.
The tradition began in 1966, after the '66 cohorts survived a brutal and obnoxious Hazing Day. Their resentment toward the tradition of hazing incoming students led the class of '66 to develop a new, more PG, more welcoming ritual.…
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Food for a cause at the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
Being vegetarian doesn't mean having to eat just vegetables or tofu. For those considering a vegetarian lifestyle, or simply reducing the amount of meat in their diet, the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival is quickly approaching to rebuff any of those preconceived notions.…
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Top Five Halloween Costumes to Avoid
Halloween is fast approaching. For those who have costumes set: great. For those still looking for ideas, here are five costumes you don't want to be caught in - dead or alive: 1. Balloon boy Do you honestly think that dressing as Falcon was your idea? It is easy to put together and seems clever; that's why everyone will do it.…
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And That's What She Said
I love Halloween. It is without a doubt my favorite holiday, and I'm a huge fan of horror movies. Rather than rant about horror I'm going to give you a list of my five favorite movies. Will some of these scare you? Maybe. I've found that mileage varies when it comes to scares, and some of these have been out for a while.…
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Paranormal Activity causes chills, just in time for Halloween
For the first time, I screamed in a movie theater. You must be wondering, what movie could provoke such fear-leaving me literally with no control over my reactions? I tell you now: Paranormal Activity is not for the faint of heart. Produced on a measly $15,000 and directed by Oren Peli, Paranormal Activity is being described as one of the greatest horror films of all time, causing widespread hysteria and even inspiring cult-like obsessions.…
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Wanting 'Nobody' but the Wonder Girls
This South Korean pop group is burnin' up the US charts
Meet the five singers-Mimi, 17, Sohee, 17, Sun, 20, Yenny, 20, Yubin, 20-of the Wonder Girls. These five South Korean singers are one of the first pop sensations to have made it big from Asia. Their debut started with their hit show MTV Wonder Girls on MTV Asia and the girls hit it big.…
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Pittsburgh Collective returns to campus with a big bang
This Thursday night the Pittsburgh Collective, a 20-member jazz band, will perform in Chapin Auditorium, bringing. The Pittsburgh Collective, which brings together a fusion of sounds, is led by director and Associate Professor of Music, David Sanford.
Sanford, who started on the trombone at age nine and is an accomplished composer, credits his inspiration as deriving from a hybrid of places such as jazz, new music, rock, movie soundtracks, world music, drums, bugle corps, and even non-musical influences.…
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Five College sudents use art to promote gender violence awareness
The Blanchard Art Gallery's newest exhibit is the Clothesline Project, a program that displays shirts that express the plights of female victims of violence. The exhibit features around 600 shirts which were created by students from the Five Colleges and is sponsored by Mount Holyoke's Sex and Gender Based Violence Awareness committee (SGBVA).…
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Dancing skeletons, werewolves and phantoms, oh my
On Halloween, the Mount Holyoke College Orchestra will perform a unique concert that will certainly set the tone for a spooky night. Check out these facts about the evening's music selection. Danse Macabre, Camille Saint-Saëns, 1874 The idea of Danse Macabre or the Dance of death is the depiction the death leading a row of dancing skeletons from all walks of life to the grave.…
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The street art of Banksy
"Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal," wrote Banksy in his book Wall and Piece. This quote perfectly sums up Bansky's perspective on what ideal artworks should be.…
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Brazil steps up for Olympic leadership
Under the eyes of the Redeeming Christ, a crowd gathered at Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro. It was Friday afternoon and people should have still been at work. But instead, they had their feet on the sand and their eyes fixed in a large screen installed in the middle of the beach.…
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The black or white politics of a piercing
I got my nose pierced on a blistering cold day in early December. There was no blood, no fainting, and like most other visitors to Lucky's in Northampton, Penelope pierced me with expertise. Ten minutes later, I sauntered out with one sore nostril, a tiny little stud and a bag of sea salt.…
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Nobel prize for literature: Aesthetical or political?
“In our age there is no such thing as keeping ‘out of politics.’ All issues are political issues,” wrote George Orwell in his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language." Nothing, it seems, can escape the seductive grasp of politics.…
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On the Edge
Gregory Maguire has a gift. He has a talent for taking stories as we know them, and twisting them into deep, multi-layered and intellectual novels, sprinkled with his own innovations. He has quite the laundry list of recycled fairy tales, and that list is only getting longer: Cinderella told from a step-sister's viewpoint-check.…
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Author Walls defends memoir, pens "true life novel"
Jeannette Walls, author of the bestselling novel The Glass Castle, came to Mount Holyoke's campus on Monday, Oct. 26 to discuss her newest book Half-Broke Horses, in Gamble Auditorium. Half-Broke Horses is the story of Walls' grandmother Lily Casey Smith, told in the first person.…
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Novelists Russo, Wroblewski talk shop with MHC professor Martin
Best-selling authors Richard Russo and David Wroblewski discussed their latest works with author and Mount Holyoke professor Valerie Martin, on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at Mount Holyoke. The speakers were joined by Russo's daughter, who works at the Odyssey Book Shop, and introduced them.…
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