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Students, faculty and Williamstown residents gathered at Images Cinema last Wednesday night for a special screening of the documentary Denying Access: NoDAPL to NoNAPL, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker, Jason Corwin. Denying Access chronicles the campaign among various Native American groups to halt the construction of oil pipelines through sensitive and sacred ...
On Tuesday evenings, most students at the College are knee-deep in work at Sawyer or Schow. Even so, it is not uncommon for the meditation room in the basement of Thompson Memorial Chapel to be filled to capacity. On Tuesdays at 8 p.m., Associate Professor of English Bernie Rhie leads a workshop called "Intro to ...
Students at the College hear plenty about their professors' courses and research. But beyond their focus in academic circles, some faculty also apply their expertise to social issues. One such professor is José Constantine, assistant professor of geosciences, whose research intersects with his own environmental advocacy.
First Man, playing at Images Cinema through tomorrow, is the first of Damien Chazelle's major films that isn't centered around music. La La Land was a musical about performers in Los Angeles, while Whiplash focused on a jazz drummer's ascent to greatness. Here, however, we are faced with something different - a slower, often quiet ...
In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have taken three seminars in my first semester at the College. I got a bit overzealous in planning my classes, and might have taken on more reading than a person would reasonably want to do in a single semester. But in talking with other students, I've found that other people ...
Rebooting classic film franchises has been a Hollywood staple for years, and the Halloween series is about to receive this treatment, with a critically acclaimed sequel on the verge of release. The line out the door at Images two Fridays ago, however, wasn't for the latest Halloween film, but rather for a limited-run screening of ...
Controversial guest speakers have been hot topics on college campuses for years now. It's been two years since former President of the College Adam Falk made national headlines for, in his own words, "taking the extraordinary step of canceling a speech by John Derbyshire." However, our divided political atmosphere has brought more radical voices to ...