Apr 1, 2019
Fearless Female Fighters
Story by Stephen Wilson, photos by Brandon Marin ’22 Following a tragedy we all want to understand the “why” and begin a search for meaning. Those…
The Arts
Mar 28, 2019
To Whom Do You Pray?
By Bill Landauer For four days in September, members of the Easton area, Lafayette’s hometown, fielded two provocative questions from an auspicious visitor…
Mar 21, 2019
Instrument of Perception
By Stephen Wilson Grammy-nominated improvisational jazz performer Gary Hassay visited the Williams Visual Arts Building and played for students in Ed Kerns’…
Mar 16, 2019
Synthesizing Artistic Risk
By Stephen Wilson Green lights, angling toward a vanishing point, dot the stage like a series of city high-rises. A lone figure walks out. A blast of fog…
Mar 9, 2019
A Minuet In Time
About 30 students, staff, and community members learned how to dance like people did during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe during a Baroque dance…
Mar 7, 2019
Susan Orlean Finds Herself in the Library
By Stephen Wilson When Los Angeles Public Library caught fire in 1986, the blaze burned for seven and a half hours, reaching temperatures of 2,500 degrees…
Dec 27, 2018
The Class: “The Year 1971-72 in Music, Art, and Literature”
By Bill Landauer Take us there: The war in Vietnam is hurtling toward its ambiguous end. The nation is still bruised from the Kent State massacre the year…
Dec 14, 2018
Learning for Laughs
Story and photos by Stephen Wilson The planets plan a surprise birthday for the sun. The night is going perfectly until Pluto walks in. The planets feel…
Dec 7, 2018
Becoming a Poet
By Kathleen Parrish Jovante Anderson ’19 won the Young Writers’ Prize for Poetry at the inaugural celebration of World Poetry Day in Jamaica this year…
Dec 4, 2018
Making Beautiful Music
The Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented their fall concert Saturday under the direction of Jennifer Kelly, director of choral activities, at the…