Month: December 2008

Opinions & Editorials

Opinion: ‘Missed connections’ avoidable

By Roxanne Bequio
Staff Writer

You’re going about your own business, when someone catches your eye. Thoughts rush through your head as you formulate a plan to initiate conversation with this complete stranger. However, this proves to be a difficult task, seeing how first impressions are everything and you would really like to approach them without pervading a sense of creepiness in your demeanor.

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News

Lee Meriwether: The life of a City College alumna

By Benjamin Taylor
Editor

Inside the Diego Rivera Theater, the stage is almost bare. There’s a wooden step ladder, some coiled rope, and several old props laying displaced on dusty wooden planks. The theater is empty too, save for three occupied seats, and two figures up on stage working among the bare bones of a living room set: a couch, a coffee table and a window frame looking out on empty seats.

Lee Meriwether’s voice echoes through the theater as she recites her lines…

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The Guardsman