~photo courtesy of http://cariart.tripod.com/SUPERMAN-5.html~ It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s [insert actor’s name here]. The Superman character has been portrayed by over five actors (cartoons not included) on television and in film, and soon there will be another name added to the list. While my favorite Superman will probably always be Tom Welling’s Clark [...]

The beauty of college really is that you can become anything you want. There are no restrictions as to how you spend your time or what kind of new experiences you can get yourself into. Being in my last semester of college, I thought that I had the fullest college experience I could have hoped [...]

Well, that wasn’t too exciting, was it? It seems that every year, we walk into the Oscars kinda knowing how it’s all going to turn out. We desperately want there to be a surprise or two, but in the end, the awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences happen so late in [...]

The 83rd Academy Awards, which will take place this Sunday, February 27 with first-time hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco, will be a night dedicated to celebrating the art of great film, in which the best films for each of the 24 different competitive categories will hopefully be rightly honored. This year’s nominated films for [...]

Kalesuuala.  Issakauula.  Baluualka. In the fictional language of Kari, these words mean “morning,” “ribbon,” and “dog.”  Spoken as a sentence, they mean absolutely nothing. Sarah Brodie, the main character of Precious Little, doesn’t care what they mean.  After years of working as a linguist, Brodie has lost touch with the meaning of the words she [...]

Photo courtesy of Universal Motown and Derrty Entertainment – Your questions have been answered. The Slope Day Programming Board announced at the Student Assembly meeting that hip-hop extraordinaire Nelly will grace Cornell with his presence on May 6th, Slope Day 2011. Picture this: You’re lounging on the slope, basking in the glory of the annual [...]

Mann Library, sometimes an arena for my most productive hours…but currently this comfortable couch chair and the dim lighting is helping me channel my counterproductive side. Thus, a blog post ensues. I am not able to read books for pleasure very often, but when I do I become extremely enveloped in plot lines. I visualize [...]

Everyone is a racist. At least, that’s the perspective of a character in Dispatches from (A)mended America, a documentary play about race.  Usually, the stereotype of a “racist” brings to mind someone who treats others as inferior because of race.  Dispatches gives us an alternate definition: “Racism is being able to benefit from the way [...]