They can’t all be winners Thunder and Lightning (T&L) is an ideal venue for concerts: it’s intimate, has good acoustics and serves good drinks. What more can you ask for? Unfortunately, a great setting does not a great concert make. While this past Friday’s punk show wasn’t bad by any definition of the word, it […]
Buy a ticket and take a seat, folks – ‘Joan of the Stockyards’ has a few things to say With only a few weeks left in the semester, the drama department is in full force preparing for the last three shows of the season to open. First up we have Saint Joan of the Stockyards, […]
Examining ‘The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’ Last Thursday at the Owens Art Gallery, Dr. Jonathan Kerr of the English department gave on a talk on The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, which he called a “weird and wonderful novel.” The talk was titled James Hogg’s […]
Music society organizes mental health week during the busiest month of the year As March continues and April approaches, stress levels continue to rise in the music conservatory. Student recitals, jury season, final paper due dates and final exams are looming in the near future and the environment seems to get more frantic and chaotic […]
Guest speaker speaks to the historic and present inequality of public washrooms On March 8, author Lezlie Lowe gave a presentation on her book No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs. Lowe, a journalism professor at King’s College in Halifax, was the guest speaker at Mt. A’s annual international women’s day […]
Connections within the body create messy yet rewarding scientific work We tend to hear a lot about the value of connection at a small school like Mt. A. In a close-knit community like Sackville, connections are fostered at every turn, between students, professors, community members, disciplines – the list goes on. But while we’re constantly […]
Re-evaluating the value of religion during Lent It is now the beginning of the season of Lent, the forty days of spiritual discipline which lead to Easter. In this time period, and especially in the Holy Week before Easter, the news media will likely increase its number of stories about Christianity. That has certainly been […]
Being part of The Vagina Monologues is something that I have always wanted to do. Both my mom and my cousin took part in other productions of this show and I liked the idea of being able to follow in their footsteps. This is about my experience participating in The Vagina Monologues this year. As […]
