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Volume CXXXI, Number 21
April 12, 2002

Ghetto Life debuts at Common Hour
CONOR WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER
The piece has won considerable acclaim in several theatrical competitions, winning first place in the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival in competition against over 800 other students' plays. [read the article]

Art lecture highlighted by rabbits, dwarves
KATE LACKEMANN, CONTRIBUTOR
Maya rulers often surrounded themselves with dwarves and hunchbacks because they were thought to be smarter than average people. [read the article]

One-acts, music benefit AIDS project
TED REINERT, STAFF WRITER
Audiences will be entertained by a combination of music and drama, and their money will go to a good cause this weekend at a pair of benefit shows for AIDS Project Portland. [read the article]

Panic Room mildly frightening
MONICA GUZMAN, COLUMNIST
Fincher didn't actually try to make Panic Room an A+; he meant to slide by with a C. [read the article]

Pedro O'Hara's unites ethnic cuisines
KERRY ELSON AND LAUREN McKEE, STAFF WRITERS
At first a little daunted by the prospect of corned beef tacos and potato tortillas, the foodies blindly accepted the challenge. [read the article]

Value in convergence
MATT SPOONER, STAFF WRITER
The exhibit puts two similar pieces of art side by side to show, rather than tell, how art accrues value. [read the article]

Infectious Organisms' music is contagious
MIKE CHAN, STAFF WRITER
For an underground hip-hop group such as Infectious Organisms, their exposure is rarely noticed under the success of commercial rappers these days. [read the article]

Party flicks presented courtesy of Film Society
JIM FLANAGAN, COLUMNIST
Since this is a dry weekend on campus, we're hoping you'll use the lack of campus wide parties as an excuse to come out and catch a few of these films. [read the article]

Culinary club spices up Bowdoin campus
HANNAH DEAN, STAFF WRITER
Though opinion and culture may divide Bowdoin students in the political and social realm, food and a common table will always bring us together. [read the article]

Photojournalists wanted!
The journal welcomes submissions from all levels of expertise, the only requirement being that you only submit your own b+w works. [read the article]