2008 Woodie Awards
Lifestyle Articles
FLAG ON THE PLAY
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Freshman Brad Smelser grabs freshman Barry Cannon's flags in a game of flag football Sept. 9 on Eden Theological Seminary's field. Smelser's team went on to win 52-42. There will be three more weeks of game play before the playoffs begin on the fourth week.
First Fridays pools student talent
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Despite the rain, a change of location, a few audio problems and a late start, nearly 100 students filled Marletto's Marketplace for the first First Fridays open mic night of the school year. The event, originally scheduled to take place at 8 p.m. outside the Emerson Library, included such student acts as TPX-5, Excel Cruz and the Illphonics, among others.
Dave Black and Friends pay tribute to Belgian musician
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The intoxicating sounds of gypsy jazz, catchy swing music and 1940s bebop were met with enthusiasm at the Dave Black and Friends faculty jazz performance Sept. 10. Jazz enthusiasts could be seen tapping their toes and snapping their fingers to the stylings of Jean Baptist "Django" Reinhardt, performed by adjunct music professor Dave Black and fellow colleagues at the Winifred Moore Auditorium.
Ecocentric professor lives through nature
Environmentalist Jeff DePew balances teaching, whale-watching, shopkeeping
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You can't judge a book by its cover - or so the saying goes. But a good look at biological sciences professor Jeff DePew can lend some pretty accurate assumptions. Standing in front of his freshman seminar class, clad in khaki shorts and a faded button-up shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his forearm and sunglasses hanging around his neck, DePew certainly looks the part of an environmentalist.
Documentary reveals Golden Gate's
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Four and a half stars As one savior of a suicide attempter said in Eric Steel's "The Bridge" (2006), being in such a situation is as if you are in a separate, detached world when looking at the real one from behind the lens of a camera. "It's like the nature photographer, taking pictures of a tiger, but he doesn't realize the tiger's running right at him until it's too late.
The Venue
Thursday, Sept. 13 • Webster University and Eden Theological Seminary will sponsor the Religion and Contemporary Society Roundtable - Politics and Religion: "Should Religious Groups Enter Into Politics?" 4 p.m. in the Executive Conference Room in Webster Hall.