This week, Emerson's WERS radio station will broadcast nationally on XM Satellite Radio's XMU, a channel for independent rock and unsigned artists. The broadcast is part of XMU's Student Exchange Program, which provides college radio stations the opportunity to take over the airwaves on Sunday afternoons.
If there's one stereotype about debaters that rings true, it's that they've got a way with words, a finesse for language, a gift for gab. True to form, Emerson's Speech and Debate Team used those skills to talk their way to the National Forensic Association's competition in Nashville this past weekend, with sophomore Meredith Constant making it past quarter- and semi-finals to rank sixth in the After-Dinner Speaking category, a form modeled after traditional persuasive and humorous speeches given after dinner parties.
Channel 7 WHDH general manager, Randi Goldklank was charged with assault and battery of a police officer following an incident at Logan International airport, The Boston Globe reported yesterday. Goldklank was a guest lecturer last month at an Emerson event sponsored by the Journalism Department and the college's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
In the tradition of mock-documentary film making, life and art imitate one another freely, often with hilarious results. For Jim Cummings and Derek Smith, art and life became one in the same. The pair are behind the wry mockumentary Spacerock, about a pair of students who pitch a sci-fi romance movie to their college's student film association, but are rejected and forced to produce the film independently.
At Issue: The obstacles facing ethical journalism Our View: China, US are poor examples for students
There's this old slogan that you can still spot on wrinkled t-shirts and the backs of beat-up cars. "Kill Your Television," it reads. I've mulled this graying exhortation a lot lately, marveling at how archaic it has become. A hybrid of two vaguely related impulses-hippie back-to-basics and Luddite technophobia-the plea now seems so dated that it might as well read, "Kill Your Horseless Carriage.
With wobbly legs, woozy stomachs and foggy heads, some Emerson students spent Patriots Day trekking 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston with some 25,000 others, all on foot. Some chased celebrity cyclist Lance Armstrong, others ran with friends and loved ones, but all interviewed aimed to complete the 112th Boston Marathon for sentimental reasons.
Emerson Dance Company, Emerson Urban Dance Theater and Emerson Dance Team created a trinity of moves last weekend when they joined forces for the EDC's Spring Showcase held in the Greene Theatre. The 10 pieces spanned the artistic gamut from classical ballet performed en pointe to hip-hop to typical musical theatre.
Forget Facebook and other mindless distractions, stimulate your cranium in between cramming for exams, drafting final essays or putting together your portfolio with a few films premiering at the fifth anniversary of the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
