Arts + culture
Fifty years plus from creation, this 21st century production of West Side Story contains themes of love, hate, and the hypocrisy of the American dream we continue to explore. Since the Broadway debut in 1957, revivals of West Side Story are frequent on Broadway, in Off-Broadway tours, and college productions today.
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September 2010: I am a senior at Monroe High School. Halfway into the school day, my dad receives a call from the principal to schedule a parent-principal meeting. The call confuses my dad. My dad rushes to the school where the principal tells him that a student believes that I am a threat to the student body. Furthermore, the principal orders suspension until my innocence is proven.
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Stuck in our daily routines, we tend to confine ourselves to a list of four to five restaurants frequented on a cyclical basis. Our lists are likely to be comprised of “chain”, corporate restaurants that offer massively produced foods and drive locally owned, “mom and pop” restaurants into the ground. Hop on this culinary tour of our city’s hole-in-the-wall gems! Foodie carts and taco trucks have created quite a buzz throughout the “Capital City” over the last year or so, especially around the Ohio State campus-area.
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New company, Grayface, uses fashion and social media to spark conversations about racism. “Racism is a very current issue, but unfortunately a lot of people don’t believe it and will claim that ‘we’ve come so far since segregation.’ The Trayvon Martin case has become a national issue – as it should be – and has hit close to home, as we’ve seen in the recent events at Ohio State University. Grayface is determined to get people talking because silence can be deadly. We must continue to stand up, sit down, speak out, and march, because the conversation can’t end here,” said co-founder Heather Reese.
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New Film, Miss Representation, exposes media’s assault on feminine power First, take a moment to reflect on the media you consume daily. Consider for yourself, how women are portrayed in the shows you watch, the magazines you read, and the films you see. How do these representations influence our understanding of the female identity? Miss Representation is a documentary that seeks to answer questions like these.
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Series featuring creative writing about the society we live in and current issues. This poem contains graphic descriptions of violence. An Unsuccessful Reign By S. Sach
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Stuck in our daily routines, we tend to confine ourselves to a list of four to five restaurants frequented on a cyclical basis. Our lists are likely to be comprised of “chain” corporate restaurants that offer massively produced foods and drive locally-owned, “mom and pop” restaurants into the ground. Hop on this culinary tour of our city’s hole-in-the-wall gems! This month’s feature, Pita Hut n’ Grille, could easily stake claim to most authentic Middle Eastern cuisine in the “Arch City”. Located on North High Street, just south of the iconic Graceland shopping center, Pita Hut is but a short drive from the outskirts of campus.
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Dancers discuss their art and the opportunities of their generation A dancer’s identity is fixed on expressing meaning through movement, healing fractures within themselves and others in the process. Dancers Jenny Kornswiet, Sherman Wood, Sara Burcham, and Lauren Bruce agree that dance is extremely important to this generation; it is an escape from societal pressure and it connects people of diverse backgrounds. With our generation’s growing interest in politics and social issues, dancers are able to draw attention to current issues through the message that his or her body speaks.
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“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” sheds new light on a tumultuous time period by presenting it from a new perspective with more intimate material than that produced in the documentaries shown in my high school American history class.
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In my experience, few students – in high school or college – gain substantial knowledge on the 1996 welfare reforms. I only learned about the issue in my AP U.S. Government class and, then, we only touched on it briefly in the context of the 1995 and 1996 federal government shutdowns. It was partly because of this lack of knowledge that I felt compelled to pick up Myth of the Welfare Queen. But I was mainly driven to read it because, as a fairly well-off small town girl and self-proclaimed “activist”, I felt obligated to read it to counter my own lingering stereotypes about welfare recipients.
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