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Jon Meacham and Barbara Bush to Receive Honorary Degrees

The graduation ceremonies of 2010 signify the joyous liberation of senior students from the classrooms of the Domain.  The degrees they will receive when they walk the stage are more than hard-earned pieces of paper.  

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Sewanee Dedicates Art in Memory of Elizabeth Rogers

 On Sunday, April 25, the University of the South unveiled two works of art at the Kappa Sigma House in memory of Elizabeth Rogers, C‘09. The reception came at an important time in memory of Liz: not only was it party weekend, but also her birthday.  After Liz’s passing last year, a group of her peers set up a gift fund, the Liz Rogers Memorial Fund, as part of the senior gift to honor Liz’s unique contribution to Sewanee.

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A “Conversation” With the AFC

 Recently, the Activities Fund Committee (AFC) held its annual hearing. The AFC is a group of four students who, along with Dean for Student Activities Julie King-Murphy, allocate that odd “Activities Fee” you or a parent pays each year.

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Sewanee's Social Renaissance: Kicking it for Congo

 Even as menacing storm clouds intruded on what should have been a beautiful May Day, a group of workers from both KA and Sewanee’s Falling Whistles chapter assembled outside of the KA house to organize a fundamentally different sort of party in enthused defiance of the awful weather.

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Rumors and The Purple

  Rumors ignite our fantasy, half-truth (maybe less) half-fiction (probably more), our imaginations take hold. Could it really be true? Did this really happen? I wonder what else occurred.

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Room Selection

 Students lined up at the BC last week anxiously waiting their turn to pick a room in which they will be living for the next year. Dreams of living in club Hump or St. Luke’s filled the air only to be destroyed by proctors as they called out names and numbers.

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Oh, Please God, Not the Scissors. Anything but the Scissors.

A Review of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

 Not since Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho have the opening credits seemed so essential to a film as they do in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. They begin lingering on von Trier’s scrawled in chalk then immediately cutting to the title of the film, suggesting that the true antagonist in the motion picture is the director himself. 

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From Darth to Dvorak: A Sewanee Orchestral Review

 On Tuesday, April 20th, the University Orchestra performed their Spring Concert under the careful direction of Steven Shrader to an auditorium packed with students, faculty, and family. The night began with Edvard Grieg’s “Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: Allegro molto moderato,” featuring a piano solo by senior music major, Max Smith.  The orchestra played this concerto with gusto: Smith’s frenzied hands moved through the quick phrases easily and with an exquisite grace that perfectly complemented the rich sounds of the strings, woodwinds, and brass.

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Basketball Plays Rhodes and Birmingham-Southern

The Sewanee Tigers hit the road again on the weekend of the 5th to play double-headers in Memphis and Birmingham. The men’s and women’s teams traveled together, as they have all year. While none of the four games were won, there were some high points scored.

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