Winter break gave senior Jay Amuka time to investigate graduate film schools in New York City. His trip was cut short, though, as he rushed back to campus to rehearse for competition at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) in Champaign, Illinois. “I got back at 2 p.m. on New Year’s Day,” ...
What do Harry Potter, Captain Jack Sparrow, Lord of the Rings’ Aragorn, and Andy Dufresne of Shawshank State Prison have in common?
That question kept members of a College leadership study group talking late into the night this past semester. Besides being larger-than-life film characters, these on-screen fictional heroes (and antiheroes) proved to be great discussion ...
In the second month of our 2012 celebration of a century of higher education at Principia, the English and Mass Communication Departments stand front and center. Training in writing, literary analysis, critical listening and thinking, speaking, and the many facets of communication in our complex times couldn’t be more vital or central to a rewarding ...