Features
01 December 2006
Volume 119, Issue 9
Four
Monmouth College students to compete for major acting scholarship
Four Monmouth College students will participate in a regional acting competition as a result of their performances in two Crimson Masque productions this past semester.
Freshmen Kayt Griffith from Woodstock, Renee Emery from Girard and Kate Drost from Naperville and senior Michael Seufert of Lansing will travel, along with other members of Crimson Masque, the college’s theatrical group, to the Kennedy Center’s Region III American College Theater Festival in mid-January to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition. The festival, co-hosted by Cardinal Stritch and Marquette universities, will take place in Milwaukee, Wis., and students from colleges and universities in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. Read More...
Reality
Check: ‘America’s Next Top’ Finale
Wednesday’s episode of “America’s Next Top Model” sent Amanda, the second half of the ghostly pale twin pair, back to the United States, with the field narrowed down to the remaining three girls who will shoot a CoverGirl ad and compete in the final catwalk challenge in Barcelona. Read More...
Classics Corner: “Christmas Carol”-ing
Christmas is a time to get together with loved ones and, in some cases, read holiday classics, such as Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
While most people on the planet probably know the plot of this short novel from either reading the book or watching one of the many film adaptations, I will reiterate it here for the sake of the people who... Read More...
Calendar of Events
Friday, December 1
- 4 p.m. - Faculty Colloquia - Judi Kessler - Morgan Room
- 7:30 p.m. - Crimson Masque and Greg Malak presents “Holiday Mishaps” - Wells Theater
The
tunes review of what’s new the MC Music Man takes on: Slightly
Stoopid
One of my personal favorite bands of all time is the California based unique sounding Sublime. In my opinion, no band will ever be able to recreate the sound of Sublime, but Slightly Stoopid creates music that in many ways is equally excellent. Read More...
Feed the Parents: Final food for thought
I started this column about three months ago with a simple mission: to seek out, identify and evaluate restaurants in Monmouth that may or may not be suitable for the occasional visit by your parents or other special visitors. An alternative, if you will, to the MC cafeteria and food court fare, which I purposely have not addressed or attempted to evaluate in any of my columns. Read More...
Scots
Senior Spotlight
Heroes to
our rescue
For those of us who don’t watch television ritually, it is challenging to break into the habit. Some of us come from backgrounds which incur a need for a single - like a movie or an album, sometimes just a song. Other people seek their entertainment in a daily fix, newspapers, comic strips, soap operas and even sensational news television programming - “Oprah,” anyone? Read More...
If I could recast...
‘A Christmas Story’
Remakes are the hippest trend in Hollywood nowadays, and there’s no reason why every showbiz, hotshot director should prevent himself or herself from jumping on the bandwagon and raking in some dough. Still, there’s no accounting for taste when it comes to finding contemporary stars to fill in the shoes of our beloved cinematic icons of the past. Read More...
‘tis the Season
Monmouth, IL – November 10, 2006 – Monmouth College students spent the evening with friends to raise needed funds to benefit children at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
These students are members of a new collegiate program at Monmouth College called Up ‘til Dawn, a program that is dedicated to uniting the campus and surrounding community in an effort to save the lives of children... Read More...
