Published on: January 31, 2013
Ronald Gerber
If you haven’t read Yann Martel’s novel (as I still, unfortunately, have not), you may not realize before seeing the movie that Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is a religious experience. Yes, the tiger is ferocious and looks real, and there’s a whale, and a bunch of Indian people light things up and send them out to sea at some point. More…
Published on: December 18, 2012
Katherine Corn
The Simon’s Rock community gathered in the Kellogg Music Center to celebrate the lives of Galen Gibson and Ñacuñán Sáez on Friday, Dec. 14, the 20th anniversary of the Simon’s Rock shooting. More…
Audrey Werth and Megan Patoskie
While websites like Facebook make it increasingly difficult for employers to learn reliable student information, readabout.me offers students the opportunity to build professional profiles with college-verified accomplishments.
Last year, Karen Anderson, Associate Director of Communications, began to introduce Simon’s Rock to the project in order to enable students to create their own profiles. More…
Published on: December 18, 2012
Hillary Saviello
The Oxford International Model United Nations conference opened its 10th session in picturesque Oxford Town Hall with the loud bang of a gavel. Students from as far as India and Venezuela, as well as – you guessed it – Great Barrington, USA, made the journey to the United Kingdom for Europe’s top Model UN conference, to simulate the United Nations apparatus hosted at the prestigious University. More…
Published on: December 18, 2012
Ronald Gerber
I must begin with a simple fact of life: Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest screen actor of all time, bar none. He may not make films with the frequency of some other stars, but when he chooses a role, he throws himself into it with such zeal that he disappears into his character’s body, never to be seen again until press interviews. More…
Published on: December 18, 2012
Ronald Gerber
Creating a work of art from scratch is never an easy thing to do. In my time at Simon’s Rock, I’ve seen it done by many seniors whose hearts and souls went into it. The blood, sweat, and tears do not always pay off, but in the case of Amanda Rowe-Van Allen ‘09’s Floral Arrangements, based on the Greek Medea legend, they definitely did. Rowe-Van Allen’s adaptation, which played from Thursday, Nov. 29 to Saturday, Dec. 1 in the Daniel Arts Center, was initially rehearsed without a script. More…
Published on: November 29, 2012
Erik Elbieh
Every Rocker on campus during the past couple of decades is sure to have seen the pond in the atrium of the Alumni Library and might know about Ace the frog. However, the story of how there came to be a pond in the atrium is slightly less known. More…
Published on: November 29, 2012 More…
Published on: November 29, 2012
Theresa Paquette
Since its inception in 2006, Diversity Day has hardly run smoothly. Born out of racial conflict on campus, the first set of workshops, entitled “Bursting the Bubble at Simon’s Rock: A One-Day Teach-In on Diversity,” was challenged by students feeling that their time and money was being wasted on useless workshops when they could be spent in class. More…
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