• by Lauren Feeney   It’s that time of the year again. MCLA’s Dance Company presented its spring 2013 performance Friday, May 3and Saturday, May 4at Mass MoCA. By 7:30 p.m. on Friday night, a mass of supporters trickled in, slowly but surely filling up the Mass MoCA auditorium. The folk...

    Dance Company rocks Mass MoCA stage

    by Lauren Feeney   It’s that time of the year again. MCLA’s Dance Company presented its spring 2013 performance Friday, May 3and Saturday, May 4at Mass MoCA. By 7:30 p.m. on Friday night, a mass of supporters trickled in, slowly but surely filling up the Mass MoCA auditorium. The folk...

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  • by Connor Brimmer   The sun shone on students in the quad as they enjoyed a variety of performances throughout the day at MCLA’s Fourth Annual Performing Arts Management (PAM) show, “Day Into Night”. Two stages were set up in the quad in front of Bowman Hall and Freel Library...

    “Day Into Night” Rocks the Quad

    by Connor Brimmer   The sun shone on students in the quad as they enjoyed a variety of performances throughout the day at MCLA’s Fourth Annual Performing Arts Management (PAM) show, “Day Into Night”. Two stages were set up in the quad in front of Bowman Hall and Freel Library...

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  • by Matthew Tedesco   Anthony Gengarelly, fine and performing arts professor, is retiring after 40 years of teaching at MCLA. Gengarelly said he planned to spend more time with his wife and grandchildren in an email interview. “My wife and I will be able to spend more time on our...

    Anthony Gengarelly retires after 40 years at MCLA

    by Matthew Tedesco   Anthony Gengarelly, fine and performing arts professor, is retiring after 40 years of teaching at MCLA. Gengarelly said he planned to spend more time with his wife and grandchildren in an email interview. “My wife and I will be able to spend more time on our...

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Commentary
  • by Ken Rodriguez   Collectivistic cultures such as China and Japan have been found to have lower rates of depression in comparison to individualistic cultures such as the United States and Australia. The findings emerged despite populations with collectivistic cultures having a stronger genetic vulnerability to depression, according to a...

    Modern psychiatry: The Western world’s stranglehold on modern medicine

    by Ken Rodriguez   Collectivistic cultures such as China and Japan have been found to have lower rates of depression in comparison to individualistic cultures such as the United States and Australia. The findings emerged despite populations with collectivistic cultures having a stronger genetic vulnerability to depression, according to a…

  • Where you sit at a sporting event is a lot more important than I thought it was. It will tie together your experience by either making you feel like you’re a part of the game, or you don’t pay much attention because you’re too far away to even know what...

    Up close or far away?

    Where you sit at a sporting event is a lot more important than I thought it was. It will tie together your experience by either making you feel like you’re a part of the game, or you don’t pay much attention because you’re too far away to even know what…

  • The Runaways helped pave the way for women to enter and flourish in the rock and roll community which has influences on heavy metal. Two of the band members were especially important to the growth of women in rock and roll. The Runaways turned the rock scene upside down. Although,...

    Rock and roll ain’t noise pollution

    The Runaways helped pave the way for women to enter and flourish in the rock and roll community which has influences on heavy metal. Two of the band members were especially important to the growth of women in rock and roll. The Runaways turned the rock scene upside down. Although,…

  • Dance Company shows are one of, if not the largest performance events on campus. With their intense amounts of energy, crazy lighting, and a million emotions expressed through movement, there’s really nothing not to like about it. It’s an event everyone looks forward to, and an event to celebrate a...

    I swear I’m not being a killjoy, but seriously. Chill out.

    Dance Company shows are one of, if not the largest performance events on campus. With their intense amounts of energy, crazy lighting, and a million emotions expressed through movement, there’s really nothing not to like about it. It’s an event everyone looks forward to, and an event to celebrate a…

  • With my collegiate career finally reaching its culmination, I find myself, like so many other soon-to-be graduates, trying to quantify my college experience. The city I began my college career in, Boston, has changed plenty since the wet-behind-the-ears me (not to be confused with the suddenly worldly version). The Red...

    What a long and strange trip it’s been

    With my collegiate career finally reaching its culmination, I find myself, like so many other soon-to-be graduates, trying to quantify my college experience. The city I began my college career in, Boston, has changed plenty since the wet-behind-the-ears me (not to be confused with the suddenly worldly version). The Red…

  • Campus Comment: Spring Break

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