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The best of both worlds

Innovative is a term that is most often used whenever something is considered to be forward looking or ahead of current thinking. Right now, Jared Mezzocchi '07 is doing something innovative. Mezzocchi is a senior with a double major in Film and Theatre, a star performer in the upcoming Theatre Fairfield production of "The Shadowbox," a writer and director for the student-created television show, "The Aughts", and this April he's going to combine the screen and the stage in his own production, "The One Stoplight in Hollis.
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The changing face of FYE

Anybody on campus could tell you what FYE is. The literalists would say that it stands for First Year Experience, the humanists would say that it's a multi-faceted program aimed at getting the freshmen involved, the perfectionists would tell you during a detailed 11-minute summary complete with PowerPoint slides and the nihilists just wouldn't have cared enough to answer.
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How to milk a horse, run from a bull and other useful tips

I have the regrettable duty to inform you all that "Jackass: Number Two" is not going to be the intellectual thriller that we were all hoping for. No new ground is broken, no ancient mystery is rediscovered and then solved, and there is certainly no overall message to be taken in.