Putting the “Student” Back in Student Activities Council
Editor’s Note: Andrew Crimer is the current chair of SAC’s Friday Nights Live committee. If you’re like me, you’ve been to, maybe, three Cro Dances ever. They’re not my thing. Too many people…
“Photographs as Poems”
For those of us who only occasionally spend occasional time in New London, everyday sights can easily slip by, unnoticed, behind a stimulus shield built up by full gas tanks and their attendant…
Shake the Baron Album Review
Today the paradigm of music is highly individual. Thanks to perplexing technologies presumably granted to humanity by space aliens, a single person can record an entire album for next to nothing and send…
Professor Profile: Courtney Baker
Courtney Baker, Associate Professor of English, is an instructor known for both her authoritative knowledge on race criticism and her ability to drop Pixies lyrics into a lecture without breaking stride in a…
Time Crisis Album Review: Conn hip-hop group releases debut to high marks
Hip-hop isn’t too often given to experimentation. Genre conventions shift slowly and artists move in packs – perhaps due to the collaborative nature of the music, ideas tend to crop up across the…
Waves, Tides, and Sand Castles
So this is it: the final throes of a summer that wrestled hard at every bell. It’s nowhere near submission, and I won’t pretend I’ve ever been in control, but the fight’s almost…
Northern Lights
This weekend, following a concert featuring Kurt Vile & Real Estate, my friends and I stumbled onto what appeared to be an all-night rager in the parking lot and disused garage behind the…
The dish before the utensils
Amidst cries of “out of the sidewalk, into the street” and “si se puede,” with American Hi-Fi’s “Flavor of the Weak” stuck in my head, as I threw my fist into the driving…
I live in a basement
There are three windows at street level in my living room, which afford a gorgeous view of some trees, one fence, and four bicycles as well as a bush and part of another…
Welcome to the Working Week
It’s four AM on a Monday and I am reading about an elementary school in Brighton, Massachusetts. Conn, in its infinite wisdom, gave me three thousand dollars to do basically that. This is…
Relay for Life
As much as you may hate Bright Eyes, you can hardly argue with the title of one of his most melodramatic songs ever: A Line Allows Progress; a Circle Does Not. At least,…
Death of Apathy at Relay for Life
As much as you may hate Bright Eyes, you can hardly argue with the title of one of his most melodramatic songs ever: A Line Allows Progress; a Circle Does Not. At least,…
Campus Trends: Bad News Beards
Have you ever seen Braveheart? I have. That’s why I know the quintessential man’s man (Han Solo notwithstanding) is a bearded man. Certain campus males discovered the simple social fact of The Beard…
Conn and New London Communities Unite for Benefit Show
Conn students are not the most likely of characters to encounter downtown. On some level, the fault lines of disconnection in our relationship with the New London community are mostly widened by our…
A Journey Outside Structure: Computers, Card Catalogs Can’t Keep up with Niantic Book Barn
When the stone retaining walls and castellations of our windy campus begin to feel claustrophobic, take a sun-bleached Saturday afternoon and head out into the wilds of Eastern Connecticut. To decompress, I recently…
