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"Deity" Prints Spark Controversy

by Bekah Hall

As the Senate’s recent discussion over several prints in the Campus Center basement reveals, Houghton students continue to grapple with the role of artwork on campus. The artwork in question, a series entitled “Deity,” was placed in the Collaborative Meeting Room earlier this semester. The series consists of five prints by artist David Carr depicting various Greco-Roman gods. Hanging from left to right the prints are entitled “Cosmic Egg,” “Goddess Gate,” “Deity,” “Apollo,” and “Janus.” Last Wednesday, the SGA Senate unanimously voted to have these pieces removed from the room. The final word, however, belongs to the Campus Enhancement Committee, which requested the Senate’s recommendation on the matter. The committee has not yet come to a decision. Full story

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Tomorrow: 23rd Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition

by Hannah Jennings

Tomorrow is the opening of the 23rd Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition in the Ortlip Art Gallery, allowing for the exciting opportunity for fellow students and community members to experience the work and creativity of student endeavors from the past year. Students of all disciplines participate in showing their work in the multi-media exhibit. Full story

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Shen Olympics: A Shen-sational Tradition

by Dan Sendker

A heads up: those who want to enjoy a nice, quiet, relaxing dinner in the dining hall tonight had better eat before 5:30 p.m. -- tonight is the Shen Olympics. Full story

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Brown House Hosts Culture Night

by Bekah Hall

With a fairly constant stream of guests coming through the doors and just enough room for people to squeeze into the living room, the Brown House Culture Night last Friday demonstrated this year’s Brown House residents’ desire to provide an open, welcoming place on campus. The House’s first official activity this semester, the night was complete with dishes from over five countries, as well as a showing of the movie “Life in a Day.” While senior Sarah Wangai, resident of the Brown House, said they hoped the night would serve as “mostly a hang-out time,” the event also reflected the House’s theme: “Unity in Diversity.” Full story

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Pocket Vinyl: Eight Notes and Paints

by Ben Murphy

Throughout 13 tracks, Pocket Vinyl’s “Monster’s Talking” presents a musical richness that runs the gambit of everything from loose and freewheeling to somber and reflective. The group, comprised of married Houghton graduates Eric Stevenson, ‘08, and Elizabeth Jancewicz, ‘09, is unusual in that, during each gig, while Stevenson plays and sings, Jancewicz completes a new painting to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The result is dynamic, robust keyboard riffs which are met, matched, and enhanced by imaginative, lyrical, visual art. However, the brilliance of the album is not the ways in which the two art forms meet, but rather the place in which they meet. Full story