Flora, Fetuses, and FertilityBy Joseph Young Fall 2011
If you’re anything like me, you can’t think about Easter without imagining a parade of cute little bunnies and Easter eggs, dyed (or these days, made of plastic) in your favorite springtime pastels. But if you actually stop to think about it, bunnies don’t lay eggs. So why does the Easter Bunny bring them? And from what poor bird did he steal them?
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Mental conditioning for lifeBy Kaitlyn Tiffany When it comes to Disney animated classics, our generation, the babies of the early 90s, have a tell-tale soft spot: we look back on these movies as the golden age of children’s entertainment. Why is this? It’s proven that adrenaline can solidify and amplify memory. What causes adrenaline rushes?
Fear. |
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Photographs by Lanny Huang, Maddie McCann, and Norah Sweeney
Text by Maddie McCann, Ariel Lawrence, and Norah Sweeney |
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By Shaye Torres
What makes a movie cultish? For a lot of people, it’s about the thrill of discovery—because these films traditionally don’t do well in the box office, they end up hidden in unlikely places, like small art theaters, late-night television, or listed in Netflix’s more eccentric genres (e.g. “psycho-dramas with a strong female lead”, or “campy horror films set in outer space”). The “found” nature of a cult film makes the viewer feel that, in discovering it, he or she has unearthed a cinematic gem too fringe for the mainstream viewer to ever understand. This self-proclaimed separation from the movie-going masses adds the viewer by default to the film’s “cult,” or what is perceived to be the small group of people who are also cognizant of its splendor. |
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Issa Rae and the rise of the awkward black chickBy Ariel Lawrence I cannot remember the exact moment that strong black women disappeared from television, but somewhere between Living Single and Flavor of Love, things went terribly, terribly wrong. Now it seems we are in a stalemate, almost polarized. On your average prime-time medical or legal drama, you can’t tell the one token black female character from the lamp standing next to her. On reality television there seems to be an endless supply of strippers and aspiring actresses with attitude problems that would make Rosie Perez uncomfortable. Ultimately, when I open my laptop or turn on my television, there is no one that acts like any black woman I know. |
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Twilight Sparkle, Doctor Whooves, and their surprising fandomBy Alexis Boytsov It’s Saturday morning and I find myself surrounded by friends, plopped down on a carpeted floor in front of the television for what feels like the first time since childhood. There are seven of us in the Risley dorm room, eagerly awaiting the top of the hour and shushing each other every few minutes upon remembering that it’s still Quiet Hours. The very fact of a roomful of college students being up and focused on anything before 9 a.m. on a Saturday is perhaps noteworthy. The occasion? Why, the premiere of a new episode of My Little Pony, of course! |
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Some secrets from around campus. |
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By Gina Cargas
Here at kitsch, we like to imagine that all our professors live secret lives as badass punk-rockers—and we’ve found one that actually does. Meet Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of Bad Religion. |
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