Daily Archives March 5, 2014

I was taught that spoken word poetry started in the east coast, originating in Latin@ communities then Black neighborhoods as an “alternative venue where non-Columbia/NYU educated, poor, Spanglish-speaking, racially oppressed groups carved their own space” to challenge norms that silence them in a form that is meant to be experienced immediately with “particular rhetorical practices and discursive tropes that make it "SPOKEN WORD" as opposed to "poetry read aloud."

Loan has asked Luigi to bring her a cup of hot chocolate down from the Main Dining Room consistently for weeks. A new table for the sweet treat with toppings is just another tool for us to get through the crunch of working under Tuesday night deadline.

Hyperactive children are a handful, as anyone who has been near a toddler knows. Three- to five-year-olds are loud, energetic and have a short attention span that I’m sure drives their parents and teachers crazy. Young children are just overflowing with energy — everything is exciting and new to them.

Marketing innovator. Successful entrepreneur. Business icon. These all describe John Sculley, former President of PepsiCo and CEO of Apple, who addressed an enthusiastic audience at Fairfield on Feb. 26.

Walking to your car, you catch a glimpse of that bright, thin orange sheet, waving back and forth in your windshield wiper as the wind blows. You stop in your tracks and think, “Not again!”

Mayor Bill Finch of Bridgeport grew up in the city that he now governs, and has said he doesn’t recall Fairfield University being accessible to the kids from his own neighborhood.

Although mountainous snow banks may have students thinking that the university is trapped in a perpetual winter, soon enough registration for the Fall 2014 semester and talk of summer plans will elicit anxious murmurs of the infamous “I” word throughout campus. Internship.

Tuesday, 2/25 9:17 p.m. A student reported $40 was stolen from their wallet in the locker room of the RecPlex. The incident is under investigation.

On Saturday night, more than 30 students stopped a university-sponsored talent show to let a classmate read her poem, which they believe the Office of Residence Life had tried to censor.

HBO’s “True Detective” isn’t any ordinary television crime drama. It’s not just a remarkably clever tale about the “good cops,” underdogs going up against powerful, evil and unknown enemies.