The Lafayette · Easton, PA
What do robotic animals, Banksy and a college philosophy class have in common? According to improv logic, more than you’d think. On Friday night, a small but boisterous crowd gathered at Good Human Improv Company in downtown Easton for The Beacon, an improv showcase featuring a group of rising performers who had just undergone an intensive eight-week performance workshop. This week, the newly minted group, Breakfast in the Morning, started the show. They worked based on a form of improv called “The Harold,” a 30-minute format that heavily centers audience participation to guide the group through three distinct scenes.
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Three students are running for seven seats for Student Government’s class of 2028 Senate positions. Those three students still need to be voted into office in Student Government’s first-ever Senate elections next week. But what about the other four seats? Student Government’s bylaws send readers questioning procedure on races with too few candidates to the constitution, which refers back to the bylaws’ vacancy procedure. A seat is not considered vacant until new members are seated in Student Government’s final meeting of the calendar year, according to Treasurer Gracie Vale ‘27, who served on the organization’s executive board during the constitutional rewrite that replaced an application-based representative system with a Senate election. Per the bylaws, Student Government’s vice president has one week following a vacancy to request applications from the student body. Students who apply for Senate positions to fill vacancies will not be subject to a public election.
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The men’s soccer team fell 3-2 to Lehigh University last Saturday in the first round of the Patriot League Championship, blowing a late 2-0 lead. The loss marked the Leopards’ season finale, following their win against Lehigh last week to keep the season alive. Lafayette College (3-3-3 Patriot League, 4-10-4 overall) opened the scoring against Lehigh (5-3-1 Patriot League, 7-7-5 overall) in the 22nd minute when senior midfielder Samir Dishnica’s indirect free kick found senior midfielder Beaux Lizewski. Lizewski redirected the ball to sophomore forward Tommy Clark, who lofted a shot over the goalkeeper to give the Leopards a 1-0 lead. “My role on those diagonal kicks is to be at the top of the box, and if anything comes out or is deflected, just keep it in play and either get a shot or pass,” Lizewski said. “Samir played it into the box,” he added. “It just happened to fall to me on the top of the box and I saw Tommy was open.
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Lafayette College students face their third election in four weeks as Student Government holds its first Senate elections under its rewritten constitution. Similar to the organization’s October cabinet elections, voting will open on Monday at and close on Friday just before noon. Students can only vote for members of their own class year, and can select up to seven candidates to vote for. Class of 2028 Three students are running for seven Senate seats. The four remaining spots will be filled via an application process after the new Senate assumes their positions. Sen. Emerson Casper ‘28 With four semesters of Student Government service, Casper is the longest-tenured senator seeking election. She currently chairs the Student Organizations Committee, which oversaw the approval of 15 student organizations in April. Sen. Enihyah Rolle ‘28 Rolle was appointed in March to replace Rep. Milan Iezzi ‘28, a former presidential candidate who stepped down in February.
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Making friends on a college campus can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Marisa Franco, a professor at the University of Maryland and the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Platonic,” gave a crowd of roughly 200 Lafayette College students advice for making friends on Tuesday. “Students struggle because they have a lot of misconceptions when it comes to connection,” Franco said. “They are waiting for someone to choose them rather than knowing that they can choose.” Hosted inside the “Bicentennial Village” and organized by the Lafayette Activities Forum, the Office of Student Involvement and Dean of Students Walter Snipes, Franco’s talk covered numerous strategies from her book to help build relationships. Such strategies included showing up to and engaging with people in social spaces, being vulnerable, initiating social events, being intentional about making friends and making people feel like they matter.
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The women’s basketball team had opportunities down one possession in the fourth quarter against the New Jersey Institute of Technology, but couldn’t quite convert offensively, losing 64-60 at home on Wednesday. Ball movement was the theme early for the Leopards (1-2 overall), as they scored off of assists on seven of their eight baskets in the first quarter. Senior forward Tasha Chudy collected four assists in the opening period against the Highlanders (4-0 overall), dropping dimes to her teammates on cuts to the basket. “We started out with really good intensity, and I think that intensity came off of us making hard cuts, making hard plays, so when we play hard like that, those opportunities are going to be there,” Chudy said. Though the Leopards went 0-for-2 from downtown in the first quarter, they made up for it with frequent paint touches, generating looks at the basket off dribble drives, and taking a 17-11 lead.
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For the average nature lover, math might not factor into the equation. But for Jer Thorp, a data artist and professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the fields of mathematics and ornithology — the study of birds — could not be more connected. “We like to think of the natural world as something sacred and pre-natural that we can appreciate without thinking very hard about,” Thorp said. “Through data collection, we find the external players that are changing the world we care so much about. It’s one thing to say a species is dying; it’s another to ask why.” Data artists create abstract visual representations of data to evoke an aesthetic experience with collected information. Thorp led three Lafayette College students and three faculty members through a data art project, in which participants represented yearly visitation habits for birds at Merrill Creek Reservoir outside Phillipsburg through a postcard that they then emailed to family and friends.
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"War does not end for these women when the weapons fall silent," highlights director Elwira Niewiera, whose doc about women going through long-term therapy premieres at IDFA in Amsterdam.
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Credit: Nina Riggio Idalia Lechuga-Tena, former legislator and current president of the New Mexico Federation of Democratic Women, checks the headlines at Deb Haaland’s election-night rally on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Last month’s elections elevated several Native women to public office, and New Mexicans voted in Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) as the first Native woman governor in U.S. history. In 2018, Haaland became one of the first two Native women in Congress, alongside Sharice Davids. She then oversaw the Department of Interior under President Joe Biden, the first Indigenous woman to do so. Haaland campaigned for governor on a platform of supporting New Mexicans’ struggles for affordability, safety, healthcare and education. —B. “Toastie” Oaster Republish Spread the word. News organizations can pick-up quality news, essays and feature stories for free. Republish This StoryRepublish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.
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CCPO Mian Saeed says venues that host such gatherings will be sealed, after a firing at a hotel jirga killed two people
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Farmington Daily Times · New York, NY
OSSINING, New York (AP) — As the lights dimmed inside the chapel at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, around 30 incarcerated men sat scattered across the pews, waiting to preview a new docuseries on the history of the nation’s criminal justice system. Our Lady of Hope chapel was soon abuzz with discussion, as some learned new things about an American institution with which they already have a great deal of personal experience. The four-part series, “Crime and Punishment in America,” is set to premiere Monday on PBS. It spends eight hours tracing how the justice system evolved, from the colonial period to present day, and viewers get to hear from legal scholars, formerly incarcerated people, victims’ families and corrections officers. The U.S. maintains the world’s largest incarcerated population, with nearly two million people behind bars in prisons and jails.
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The rights group says both had two weeks' warning of the 1 March attack that killed more than 200 people, and that extra UN police arrived only afterwards.
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Makers of semaglutide and tirzepatide medicines must tell patients about NAION, a rare optic nerve disorder that can cause permanent vision loss in one eye.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it destroyed a U.S. early warning radar in Bahrain, the first such claim in months. The Guard also said a tanker struck a mine while trying to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, causing an explosion. Neither claim could be independently verified. Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Friday. Read our full coverage here. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims strike on US radar in Bahrain Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted a statement by the Guard as saying the attack on the U.S. radar system followed a U.S. strike on a telecommunications pole in the southern Iranian port of Sirik. Bahrain has been one of the strongest critics of Iran and is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. The statement said the attack on the radar was a serious warning to the U.S. to cease its strikes. It was Iran’s first report of targeting a facility in Bahrain since September. During an air war that began in February, Iran targeted U.S.
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Writer-director Shana Feste ('Country Strong') dives into Nashville’s sleazy underbelly in a mystery built on dark secrets, also starring Garrett Hedlund and country singer Carter Faith.
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“Silently, the morning mist is lying on the water, captive moonlight waiting for the dawn,” – John Denver It was early morning when I approached the lakeshore. I stood in the wet grass just up from the sandy shoreline, admiring the stillness of the surface of the water. So flat, reflecting the surrounding trees and sky above, without a single ripple. A ghostlike mist had settled over the lake before I got there. I hadn’t come to fish or take pictures. I just came for the opportunity to soak up some fresh morning air, some peace and to let out a few of the knots in my brain. Quite suddenly, the silence shattered into a million pieces. From just a few feet away from me, somewhere out there in the fog, a loon began giving its distress call. Though I couldn’t see the bird, I could imagine it with its back up, flapping its wings. I made no sound myself. I just waited, quietly. In a few seconds, the loon calmed down and stopped what I presumed was panicking.
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The Mining Journal · Fargo, ND
Dear Heloise: As a shower gift before my wedding, a friend of mine gave me a pizza cutter. I smiled and said, “Thank you.” We eat pizza, so I knew it’d get some use. And it sure did! I cut brownies, cookies, noodles, play clay, and a couple of ribbons, and I even opened some boxes with it! What a useful gadget a pizza cutter happens to be. — Patsy L., in Fargo, North Dakota SEND A GREAT HINT TO: [email protected] NO MORE FOGGY MIRRORS Dear Heloise: I hated it when my bathroom mirror would fog up after each shower. Finally, a neighbor told me to combine shaving cream and rubbing alcohol, mixing them very well until they form a thick, foamy texture. Then you just clean your bathroom mirror with this mixture. No more foggy mirrors! — Ava K., in Englewood, Florida OIL-BASED POLISH Dear Heloise: I clean my stainless steel appliances with oil-based furniture polish, and it works great! It cleans them and protects them against water damage.
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The American Dream has seldom looked so bleak as in “Paper Tiger,” James Gray’s beautifully punishing tragedy about a middle class family in Queens. With operatic grace and 35 mm grit, “Paper Tiger” shrewdly and authentically explores ideas about wealth, worth, the cost of family and the price of wanting more. In 1986 New York, Wall Street might be booming in its “greed is good” era, but across the East River — where the grass still grows tall and the twin towers look small and distant on the skyline — Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller) is up early making storm windows for the winter. This is being done very much against the wishes of one of his teenage sons, who is trying to sleep in. Winter is three months away anyway, he complains. Irwin is an ordinary dad, kind and a little goofy, resplendent in a constant stream of neatly but not stylishly tucked-in plaid shirts and windbreakers. He seems older than his years, though he’s probably barely 40.