Events you can't afford to miss
The man at the bus stop flipped his cigarette from one side of his lip to the other and talked about the weather. He talked fast as I walked by, but I caught enough to realize that this man was a campus lifer. "It's probably 106 with all this humidity and sun," he said to the woman sharing his rail, "but, honey, it's only gonna get hotter here when the kids show up." He wheezed a big laugh, and she acted like she was in on the joke. I laughed, even if it had taken me three years to get it.
Come September, the still, contemplative quadrangles and lightly watered lawns turn from the bucolic site of summer camp to the full-time home of the "kids," the 4,417 undergraduate students and their respective 35 different majors. With them come the events that make our life on these 140 acres livable, and what make my friend at the bus stop realize, year after year, that Homewood indeed heats up during the school year. Here is a selection of the "Highlights of Homewood":
Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium
Homewood's first speaker series of the year, MSE brings together students with a knack (usually) for fundraising and a desire to have dinner with Newt Gingrich and sets them loose into the world of startlets, politicians, media professionals and entertainers out of which they produce an admirable collection of surprisingly engaging, often well-spoken famous people. Case in point: the 2007 series features Christopher Hitchens, who makes a living being British and grumpy, only weeks away from Bill Nye, who taught generations of kids how to set their bowties alight on the high school Bunsen burner.
Witness Theater Fall Showcase, Barnstormers Fall Play, et. al.
Though it may seem all too tempting to attend a production by one of Homewood's many theater groups (hence the "et. al.") simply to be the one unfulfilled attention-seeking egotist in the front row who guffaws at the tragic endings and giggles during the kissing scenes, actually attending a production will change your mind and make you quickly close your mouth firmly around your tongue. Though students act, sing, dance, write, produce, stage and manage most of the theater productions during the school year, even the most ardent fan of professional theater will find little to complain about after months' worth of dedication are displayed onstage.
Come September, the still, contemplative quadrangles and lightly watered lawns turn from the bucolic site of summer camp to the full-time home of the "kids," the 4,417 undergraduate students and their respective 35 different majors. With them come the events that make our life on these 140 acres livable, and what make my friend at the bus stop realize, year after year, that Homewood indeed heats up during the school year. Here is a selection of the "Highlights of Homewood":
Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium
Homewood's first speaker series of the year, MSE brings together students with a knack (usually) for fundraising and a desire to have dinner with Newt Gingrich and sets them loose into the world of startlets, politicians, media professionals and entertainers out of which they produce an admirable collection of surprisingly engaging, often well-spoken famous people. Case in point: the 2007 series features Christopher Hitchens, who makes a living being British and grumpy, only weeks away from Bill Nye, who taught generations of kids how to set their bowties alight on the high school Bunsen burner.
Witness Theater Fall Showcase, Barnstormers Fall Play, et. al.
Though it may seem all too tempting to attend a production by one of Homewood's many theater groups (hence the "et. al.") simply to be the one unfulfilled attention-seeking egotist in the front row who guffaws at the tragic endings and giggles during the kissing scenes, actually attending a production will change your mind and make you quickly close your mouth firmly around your tongue. Though students act, sing, dance, write, produce, stage and manage most of the theater productions during the school year, even the most ardent fan of professional theater will find little to complain about after months' worth of dedication are displayed onstage.
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Darth Vader
posted 9/12/07 @ 7:23 PM EST
WILL this article satisfy my appetite for johncon related info? PARhaps it will, but you'd be SCHALKed at how much nerdy info i can absorb.
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