2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!College can be stressful enough with difficult classes, the challenge of making new friends and being in a new environment, just to name a few. But for a select group of SRU students, college comes with another complicated task: fitting in as a homosexual.
SRU's theatre department will be performing three short plays by Absurdist playwright Sam Shepard in the Miller Auditorium, premiering on Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. "An Evening with Sam Shepard" was put together by SRU's theatre department chair, Gordon Phetteplace, who also directs the show.
Dr. Patrick A. Burkhart, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment, teamed up with Katherine L. Mickle, an assistant professor in the Art Department, and took a collaboration of science and art students to Badlands National Park of South Dakota this past summer for 17 days of hands-on learning.
From 1997 to 2005, Death Cab for Cutie had been in and out of the music spotlight, releasing five studio albums over that span. Their indie-rock feel grabbed my attention after the 2005 release, "Plans." This album seemed to expand the band's fan base and held a lot of promising things for Death Cab for Cutie's future.
While the plot is preposterous and the action sequences improbable, "Eagle Eye" is also deliriously fun. Jerry Shaw, played by Shia LaBeouf ("Transformers," "Disturbia") is having a bad day - actually maybe more of a bad life. He works at a Kinko's-like shop called Copy Cabana, and he doesn't make enough money to pay his rent.
The musical "Wicked" has graced the stage of the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh since Sept. 3. A thrice-based performance, "Wicked" pulls its plot directly from Gregory Maguire's novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," and it includes a little of the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" and L.
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