Nov 29, 2017
Shorter is Better
By Bill Landauer In a letter written in the mid 17th century, the French writer and physicist Blaise Pascal said, “I’m sorry I wrote you such a long…
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Nov 13, 2017
A Summer of Reality TV, Rap Music, and More
By Stephen Wilson Somali immigrants in Maine. Reality love television. Post-WW2 advertising. Jews welcomed to Islamic states. Jamaican dancehalls. A disappearing…
Oct 17, 2017
Hip-Hop Troubadour
By Bryan Hay Baba Brinkman describes himself as a hip-hop version of the troubadour, a latter-day practitioner of the oral art of the epic poets who uses…
Jul 6, 2017
Ambassador of Poetry
Yolanda Wisher ’98 loves playing with words, singing them, slapping their rhythm on the skin of a drum, and riffing with other artists to create something…
Apr 10, 2017
Two-Day Presidential Symposium Looks at Race Through Shakespeare
Some of the country’s top Shakespeare scholars will gather at Lafayette April 19 and 20 for a symposium that will explore contemporary issues of race…
Mar 17, 2017
Using Art for Social Change
For Yolanda Wisher ’98, her visit to Lafayette in February was a return to a crossroads where she first gave in to the words bursting in her brain. “It…
Feb 14, 2017
Alberto Luna ’08 Helps Patients Find Answers
Alberto Luna ’08 wanted to be a psychologist since age five. He remembers innocently aspiring to that career because “all I had to do was sit down…
Jan 31, 2017
Prof. Alix Ohlin Featured in “The New Yorker”
Prof. Alix Ohlin has had her short story “Quarantine” published in the Jan. 23 edition of The New Yorker. She was also interviewed for an accompanying…
Jan 24, 2017
Adventures in Journalism
William Gordon ’17 has explored immigration, the arts, the Supreme Court, and controversial campus issues.
Jan 10, 2017
Curtain Rises on Career Possibilities
It was at a time when Chanel Mowatt ’17 wasn’t quite herself that she found out who she truly is. In her first year at Lafayette, the English and anthropology…