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Student-athletes find solace as director resigns

By Evan Sporer
Sports

Five-run first ends baseball's playoffs

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Arts

Nice Guys rock Allston underground

Nice Guys, a recently-formed band featuring three Emerson students, thrives in the Allston underbelly for both rehearsal and performance space.
Opinion

The exciting challenge of healthy diet

Granted, one does not need to adopt extremes on either end of the nutrition spectrum. Most of us are fortunate enough to not have to eat McDonald’s or other cheap grub for every meal or limit our eating restrictions to cleanses consisting of liquid.
News

Third WebCT replacement demoed

In part of a month-long event series to find a WebCT replacement, Emerson hosted a demonstration of the third possible new Learning Management System, Blackboard Learn, in the Bill Bordy Theatre Wednesday.
Arts

EVVY nominations announced

The nominations for the 31st EVVY Awards were announced yesterday and recognized student work across the college's departments.

Arts

Rethink Music Conference Day 2
Welcome to the “no excuses” era of music: A world where your resources are virtually unlimited, leaving you with the entirely responsible for making or breaking your own future.

Opinion

Letter to the editor from Interim Marketing Communication Chair Donald Hurwitz
Don't stress over summer internships
Students today are much more serious and focused than I was, which is probably a good thing. But as I watch them cram summer classes in so they can get done with school faster, I wonder if they’re missing out on the chance to absorb some of the material they’ve learned. Students also obsess about internships the way I used to obsess about sunscreen.

Lifestyle

Miss Manners
My mother can tear you down with just one look. While other mothers patiently counted to three or pulled out “the naughty chair” when their child was acting up, my mother preferred the glare. It was so quick and subtle, that it was rarely noticed by others in our company, but it was a code between us that transmitted: You’re acting up, so mind your manners. Now.