Bono and his humanitarian friends may campaign for debt relief and global peace on a world stage, but are they just self-indulgent performers looking to validate their enormous fame? And, more importantly, do their actions actually ignite change? More »
“Study abroad. Study abroad! Pick a country, any country, and go, just go! Have an adventure. Well, have a little adventure. Have a contained adventure. Go there and be surrounded by Americans and Haagen Daz and Burger King and professors who may or may not show up for class. Go have a little adventure and then come back home, bring back your experiences, so then, years later, as you’re sitting in your gray cubicle, you can look up from your expense report and say ‘Once, I lived with a host family in Argentina. They only had one egg a week. But the egg was … so delicious.’” More »
Those who recognize the name Scott McCloud probably do so because of his cult-classic, superhero comic book series “Zot!,” or perhaps his series of comic theory books, “Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics,” and “Making Comics” are familiar. He has lectured at Pixar, Microsoft, The Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University and MIT, and soon he will be coming to Dartmouth College with his presentation “Comics: A Medium in Transition.” More »
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