September 2008

Fall Fest Feature Band: Chairlift

Submitted by stephanie_preston on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 23:45

Letter from the Editor

Perhaps you’ve had that catchy song from the new iPod Nano commercial stuck in your head while trying to study in the library.

You can’t focus on Shakespeare and his role in society because all you can think of is “I tried to do head stands for you, I tried to do head stands for you…” The song is called “Bruises&rdquo

Spike Lee Needs A Miracle to Save "Miracle at St. Anna."

Submitted by Joshua Jezioro on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 15:07

Movies

Infamous Director Spike Lee has gone on record many times speaking out against war films and their depiction, or lack thereof, of black soldiers. This past summer, he had a rather publicized verbal sparring match with Clint Eastwood on the subject of Eastwood’s World War II film, Flags of Our Fathers. Now, Lee fights back with a war film of hi

"Appaloosa": This Ain't Your Daddy's Western...or Mine

Submitted by Joshua Jezioro on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 14:52

Movies

The tombstone had yet to be carved, but for some time, it seemed as though the classic film genre known as the western, had died.

We’d sporadically get a good one here and there, (like Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven) but as a whole, quality westerns just weren’t happening.
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Purchase Legends: The Farside Fire

Submitted by stephanie_preston on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 06:29

Letter from the Editor

If you’re a senior or perhaps a super senior, you might remember the evening Farside caught on fire in February 2004. You might have been in the building when it happened and you might have even stayed at the Hilton in White Plains for two and half weeks before you were able to move back into your dorm.
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VIDEO: Red Room Reactions to Friday's Presidential Debate

Submitted by Kylie Jane Wakefield on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 06:17

Campus

Brick reporters Amanda-Rae Prescott and James O’Donnell react to the 9/26/08 presidential debate. Junior Steve Sabel and Brick reporter Jessie Meehan also add their bits of commentary.

STOOD TUBE: The Lisps Interview and Performance

Submitted by erik_lilleby on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 22:38

Letter from the Editor

Erik Lilleby and Amber Van Natten conquer The Stood and interview The Lisps!

Stack of Mags

Submitted by Elyse Mickalonis on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 21:31

Features

The paper felt waxy as I turned the page in my Marie Claire magazine. I sighed out of annoyance that the article I was reading—about Barack Obama—had drifted on and twisted into an article about Michelle Obama.
I fluttered through more pages, passing chic designer advertisements, not paying atten

Heliotrope Tape: How to Add After Add/Drop

Submitted by Jenna Giarletta on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 21:17

Campus

Most of us Purchase students have had to fight, or at least strongly poke, the system once our twice in our college career. This also usually involves tracking down professors or advisors for their all-important signatures, codes, or other frivolous seeming technicalities. My particular faculty scavenger hunt had to do with adding and dropping after what seemed a ridiculous

A Haven of Innocence and Learning: The Purchase College Children's Center

Submitted by Joshua Jezioro on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 20:55

Campus

While the weather is still nice, you may hear something unexpected on our campus: the sounds of young children playing outside.
These sounds come from the Children’s Center, which is located next to the Student Center on campus and across the street from F