The Collegian

Red Herring

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Are you ready to have some fun? The theatre department is taking a break from more serious productions to present a play that is pure entertainment.

"We have a fairly serious Shakespeare play coming up in the spring; we had a fairly serious play with 'Our Town.

"It's so interesting...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

The silver-haired artist flipped through her book of hundreds of paper-cuttings, intricate shapes framed with only a pencil, paper and scissors.?Page after page revealed different designs: flowers, dwarfs, birds, a bride and groom, a spider web. ?

"You can do anything.

Where there's smoke, There's Ire

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

State by state, indoor smoking bans are working their way across America. Due to this trend, more and more smokers are finding themselves out in the cold.

Lest we forget, America has had a long love/hate affair with smoking. During World War II, the army rationed cartons of cigarettes to soldiers which led to a boom for tobacco companies after the war.

Book Review: "Swift's Travels: Eighteenth-Century British Satire and its Legacy"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Call somebody a soft white curd of ass's milk - go ahead, do it - then try to tell me the 18th century is boring. "Swift's Travels", a collection of essays on Jonathan Swift's satire, reminds me of his modern descendants: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "The Life of Brian," "Faulty Towers.