Dr. Emily Bernard taught at Smith College before joining the Assistant Professor of Humanities. Lecture Addresses Interracial Friendship On Nov. 7, Dr. Emily Bernard, assis- Bernard used a power-point presentation tant professor of humanities, presented that featured pictures of the two men as the first of a two-part lecture series on well as other prominent figures mentioned "Remembering the Twentieth Century." in her lecture Students, faculty, staff and commu nity members filled the Gallery Lounge for her presentation. Professor Simon Bronner, American studies program coordi- nator, introduced Dr. Bernard and promoted future lectures time, an unusually large body of literature. at PSH. They wrote poetry, fiction, drama and Bernard's lecture, entitled "The essays. Among the major writers of the Trouble with Friendship: Lessons from period were Claude McKay, Countee the Harlem Renaissance," lasted an hour Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen and was followed by a question and and Rudolph Fisher. answer session. Langston Hughes was a central figure Her lecture focused primarily on the during the Harlem Renaissance. He was, friendship between Carl Van Vechten and and still is, a respected African-American Langston Hughes and how they main- writer and poet. Carl Van Vechten was an tained it during the Harlem Renaissance By Jaclyn A. Talarico Capital Times Staff Writer "The Trouble with Renaissance was R e na time period Friendship: between the end of World War I Lessons From through the middle The Harlem Renaissance" community as The Harlem of the 19305, when a group of talented African-American writers produced what was, at that Continued on Page 4 Dan Karman—this is mime story By Ana Paulina Gomez Kamin is not new in this business. He Capital Times Staff Writer • began performing at the age of 12 as a On Wednesday, Nov. 8, a mysterious birthday party magician. He attended man dressed in black slowly walked into Carnegie Mellon University and studied the Lion's Den. His presence was unmis- industrial design. His hopes for a normal takable. He looked like a corporate life and career evaporated when he dis recruiter from the "Twilight covered the uncanny movement illusions Zone." The man was Dan AP practiced by theater professor Jewel Kamin, playing the - Walkers. He promptly became the sorcer "Corpozoid Man," eerie character with ability to alienate pei and to perform am, magic tricks. This shoe formance at Penn cafeteria was just a same of what was comi "Slick Moves," a sh 4 Kamin performed in Gallery Lounge at not During the show, an excellent mime aril cian, surprised the pi blend of silent ph: comedy, eye-poi tows. He movement illusions insulted on magic tricks. He also it Friend's some of the physical and Tim dy scenes that he creal His own movies like "Benny include the with Johnny Depp, ant life in the with Robert Downey blind street Kamin's show wat lan," a key es, his magic tricks L diner vic amazed and his silent 'Benny and dy appealed to both r He wrote For the younger peopl Show," ferent way to see comedy, and for the which revealed the secrets of Chaplin's older people, it was a break from the corn- comic art, and a children's book, edy that we are used to seeing on TV "Carnival of the Animals," which is yet shows. unpublished. Workshops Encourage Girls to Study Math Big yellow school buses don't visit PSH often. On Nov. 3, several rolled up to Olmsted's front entrance and delivered 82 attendees to Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematics Day. According to program handouts, SKDays "encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics," and "assist them with the sometimes difficult transition between high school and col lege mathematics." The events are spon sored nationwide by the Association for Women in Mathematics, Lisa Busch, SKDay chair, is passion ate about encouraging young women to pursue careers in mathematics. Busch, a computer science major, and Martin Continued on Page 4 By Cathie McCormick Musser Capital Times Staff Writer c,. won prizes in friendly competitions. films of Aaplin pro at impelled luntry with "Silent ved a new ileges, the .alents have itations to e, Lincoln is not just , uring and senting
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