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Letters from abroad
Note: This is the beginning of a work of fiction, which will continue to appear in subsequent issues of the Word. Any similarity to actual Earlham students or events is entirely coincidental.
By Sam Dobro
Dear Will,
After we said goodbye at the airport, I promised myself that I wouldn’t cry. But I cried on and off for the entire flight. The [...]
Earlham Alumni return for SAB folk ni...
By Matthew Gladstone
Tonight sees the return of some relatively well-known Earlham alumni musicians. Being dubbed as a ‘lo-fi’ folk show, the Student Activities Board (SAB) concert promises to be an engaging gig with a chilled-out atmosphere.
Red Queen Hypothesis (myspace.com/redqueenhypothesis), the band of alumni Andrew Myers ‘02 and Billy [...]
The Grammies
By Kapaya Kaoma
February 13 marks what has come to be the music industry’s biggest party night of the year.
The music industry came to its annual standstill to bow in reverence to the biggest and best music stars of the year after the Grammy Award nominations were announced on December 1.
Unfortunately, the Grammy Awards are suffering a somew [...]
Senior theatre project aims to ‘open ...
By Sarah Brown-Anson
Maybe you saw it in Saga: a student discussing the “immorality of homosexuality” and handing out fact sheets from his senior project on that topic. Or maybe you were witness to a struggle between a man and a woman in prom regalia at lunch in Saga three weeks earlier.
These performances, which are part of a project led by [...]
Funkaholics rock for Pakistan: Crowd ...
By Kristin Hoppe
With music blaring and the crowd cheering, students packed into Middle East House last Friday and jammed to the Funkaholics while raising funds for flood relief in Pakistan.
A group from the nonviolent social movements class organized the concert, selling food and drinks for a dollar. Through tabling and the concert they have [...]
Earlham hosts IU East for Crossroads ...
by Camilla Fulvi
Earlham College will host the Crossroads reading series next Wednesday, Nov. 17. Students and faculty from Earlham and Indiana University East will be reading their writing at the Ronald Gallery in Lilly Library at 7 p.m.
For the past two years, Earlham has collaborated with IU East to present Crossroads, a showcase of studen [...]
Review: “The Hip Hop Wars”
by Josh Friedberg
A book’s length does not always indicate its ambition. For having fewer than 300 pages of text, scholar Tricia Rose’s The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop – And Why It Matters manages to skillfully address many key arguments generated in contemporary hip hop music and culture while remaining concis [...]
Interview with local artist Michele W...
by Micah Sommer
When Earlham students think about Richmond, they might not picture an environment that supports cutting-edge graphic arts. But if you ask local graphic artist Michele Williams, it’s the perfect location. This summer, Williams started an informal group of artists and designers from the Whitewater Valley area, who meet regularly [...]
‘All in the Timing’ brings diverse ca...
By Johnny Kauffman
Literary monkeys, time loops and the repeated death of Leon Trotsky can all be seen this weekend and next in Wilkinson Theater.
The Earlham theater department’s production of David Ives’s “All in the Timing,” a series of witty, entertaining and thought provoking one-acts, premieres tonight at 7:30 p.m.
The six short one-a [...]
EC alumnus reminisces on WECI experie...
by Chrissy Sollenberger
A photo of Rob Richardson, class of 1987, still hangs outside the WECI radio station office, although not many WECI folks know his name or his story. On campus for homecoming weekend, Richardson flipped through old records in the radio station as he described his unique history managing WECI 91.5 during his time at Ear [...]
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