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'Nigger Wetback Chink' challenges racial stereotypes
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In an ironic twist, Webster University refused to allow advertising for "Nigger Wetback Chink: The Race Show," a comedic performance aimed at increasing understanding and acceptance, because of the controversial nature of the show's title. The March 5 event, sponsored by the Multicultural Center and International Student Affairs, tackled issues of racial identity, stereotypes and common slurs.
Concert shows student versatility as dancers pirouette, tap, fly through air
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Earth meets sky in the Webster University Dance Ensemble's upcoming spring concert. The concert will feature nine works, including two aerial pieces by Panamanian choreographer Monica Newsam, a first-time guest to Webster. Aerial dance utilizes specialty apparatuses called silks, which allow dancers to explore space in a fully three-dimensional way.
Gorloks strike again at Crestwood
More than 100 Webster students swarm the lanes at Crestwood Bowl Thursday nights for Bowling League. Campus Activities sponsors the league, featuring 24 teams, each made up of four players and an alternate. Students and a handful of teachers compete against each other in three separate games from 10 p.
Audio students bring Midwest together
Audio Engineering Society holds first annual regional summit on Webster's campus, brings notable guest speakers
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"Nobody knows if we do a good job," said Gary Gottlieb, an assistant professor of audio production. "Everyone knows if we've done a bad one." Gottlieb said audio production is not a high-profile job and comes with some humility. However, on March 2 through 4, audio students had their chance to be in the limelight in the first annual Audio Engineering Society Regional Student Summit.
Decades of music fill new CMS building
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The era of the motorized tricycle and Mark Twain met the era of free love and flower power March 5 in the new Community Music School building for "That '70s Chamber Music Show." Webster University's wind ensembles performed music from the 1870s and 1970s for about 75 people.
Ice-skating fiend writes essays on Thai erotic love
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Keith Welsh figure skates. This associate professor of interdisciplinary studies also gardens, studies languages and teaches water aerobics and water Pilates at the South St. Louis YMCA. "He is not a couch potato," said Joyce Bork, biology department chairwoman and a friend of Welsh's.
Webster students sing with angelic voices at Methodist church
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St. John's United Methodist Church's selenium-toned stained glass windows set a somber atmosphere for the Webster University Chorale Society, Concert Choir and University Chorale concert March 4. Accompanied by violins, cello, piano and organ, the three groups were split into separate men's and women's choirs and sang a repertoire of songs that spanned most of the major stylistic music periods.
Professor brings students to tomb in Turkey
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Students moved to find seats in the lecture room and stopped murmuring among each other as their attention was drawn to the speaker in the front of the class and a large PowerPoint of a mausoleum. On March 2, 2007 the Department of Art and Speaker Committee held the 13th speaker, Sarah Cormack, in their Friday Lecture Series.
A calendar of upcoming events on campus and around town
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Thursday, March 8 - The Webster University Film Series presents David Lynch's "Inland Empire" at 7 p.m. in the Winifred Moore Auditorium. - The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis presents The ArtLink One Party from 7 to 10 p.m. at Mercury, located at 1025 Spruce Street.
Paths of Glory
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War is hell. Movies have taught us this lesson time and again through various stories and settings. Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" is no different, but it also reveals the hellishness of mankind itself when authority is given precedence over reason. Based on Humphrey Cobb's novel of the same title, "Paths of Glory" was a controversial box office failure in 1957.
The Rules of the Game
Restored classic satire of pre-WWII French Bourgeois society at Tivoli
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5 stars out of 5 Fans of the late director Robert Altman will appreciate this truly fine work of art by one of cinema's greatest craftsmen, Jean Renoir. "La Regle Du Jeu" (The Rules of the Game) gets off on a bad start, originally opening to a non-receptive audience in 1939.
