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Between the Lines: Summer Reading List

April 26, 2012 Features

By Olivia LeClair Listen up, Falcons – this is NOT your boring high school reading list. I’ve kindly taken our favorite books and given suggestions of novels similar to them. Happy reading! If you like The Hunger Games, try… The Compound, by S.A. Bodeen: This thriller is about a post-nuclear war world, in which its [...]

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Paul F. Tompkins: Comedy with a touch of class

April 26, 2012 Features

By Mike Lovett A large part of a comedian’s job is to create a persona, as a way to distinguish themselves and their material. The successful comedians do this so effectively that it cannot be duplicated at even the most fundamental level. Paul F. Tompkins is a successful comedian and a damn classy one at [...]

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It’s almost summertime and the viewing’s easy

April 26, 2012 Features

By Mike Lovett Like school, television’s year typically runs from September to May with summers off. Of course, there are exceptions; you can be forced to take summer school and there are some television shows, typically those on cable networks, that air during the sunniest of seasons. The former is terrible, the latter awesome. This [...]

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Senior advice for the incoming class of 2016

April 26, 2012 Features

By Angela Diaco When I think back and reflect on how much fun I’ve had, how much I’ve learned, and most importantly, how much I’ve loved because of my time with friends, I want to laugh and cry at the same time. We have the entire world before us right now, but us seniors can’t [...]

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Micronotes

April 19, 2012 Features

Presented by the Bentley Microfinance Group BMG Speaker Series: Rising from Non-Profit to For-Profit Marcel Quiroga, a former private wealth specialist and advisor at Merrill Lynch, spoke at the final speaker series event of this semester. She began her career working for Fundes, a microfinance group in Bolivia. Quiroga recalled being a very shy person [...]

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“Survival of the fittest” season for television

April 19, 2012 Features

By Mike Lovett In the television world it is now judgment day. Actually, it’s more days. But I guess if we wanted to be totally accurate it would be weeks. With a little more than a month left on the full year television schedules, networks have begun to test shows waiting in the wings for [...]

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How I Met Your Mother recap

April 19, 2012 Features

By Mike Lovett A recent trend for most sitcoms has been moving from the old school, traditional three camera set up for a sleeker more modern look in a single camera. Apparently CBS has not gotten the memo. Either that or they just want to keep reminding people that they are the oldest network. You’re [...]

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E-Board Entertainment Update

April 12, 2012 Columns

Welcome back everyone. Thank you for joining us last week. If you did not join us last week, you better pray to God you can find a newspaper from last week and catch up. This is your last opportunity to get your head straight. Game on. Titanic in 3D fared well in its opening weekend [...]

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Podcast comedy: Hilarious shows held in the palm of a hand

April 12, 2012 Columns

By Mike Lovett Entertainment more than ever is pushing across countless platforms. Music on the go has been around since portable cassette players (Remember when those existed? Of course not.) In the last decade, we were able to take videos and games with us too. Now it’s just getting ridiculous. And by ridiculous I mean [...]

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The Beat

April 12, 2012 Features

By Olivia LeClair Though I’m not an avid viewer of Mad Men, I do like to watch repeats in my spare time and enjoy gazing adoringly at the Banana Republic line of Mad Men – inspired clothes that I cannot and will never be able to afford. While searching the library shelves for a new book [...]

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Deep Blue Sea is a disappointment at the box office

April 12, 2012 Features

By Radhika Bansil Lust is meant to be the main component around which the movie, Deep Blue Sea, is supposed to circle around. Passionate, uncontrollable and animalistic, lust is supposed to overwhelm one with excitement and desire. Unfortunately, this sentiment is not shared by the characters in the movie. The lack of chemistry, character development, [...]

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Scratching the Surface: CGIU 2012

April 5, 2012 Features

By Moussa Hassoun This past weekend I had the privilege to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference being held in Washington DC at The George Washington University. As a branch of the Clinton Global Initiative, which was founded in 2005 by former President Bill Clinton, the conference served to empower students to take [...]

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