The physics department is probably the most eccentric one at Rhodes. Every Halloween, they hold a Pumpkin Drop—which consists of physics majors dropping various-sized pumpkins from the top of Rhodes Tower and calculating how fast they fall—at least, from what I’ve heard. The other day, the physics major who’s also the president of Astronomy Club…
For my Musical Paris class, the homework last weekend was to watch Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 Moulin Rouge! and honestly it was a hysterical work of art. It fit perfectly into the lectures that week about nineteenth-century café-concerts and cabaret artistiques in Montmartre, a popular little neighborhood in Paris. At night, poverty-stricken writers would come to these cafés…
When the three of us entered Dixon Gallery & Gardens in early September, sunlight was glinting on the leaf-twisted gate we passed through. Two brick columns were joined by a wooden arch with fluted gables on top. From there we emerged into a little sunlit garden with a fountain in the center, a dark globe…