The Duchess and the Dominatrix: April

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Frankly Speaking

I’m graduating soon, but I have a crush on an underclassman. Should I go for it?
—Waffling Wendy

At this point in the year, you have at most seven weeks before you leave Olin. That does not mean you cannot start a new relationship, but it does mean you need to go into any potential relationship being very honest and clear about what happens after you graduate. Is this a short fling? Would you try to keep it going long-distance? Discuss those issues with your crush and decide together whether to go for it or keep it merely friendly.
—Duchess of Deportment

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not xkcd: pets

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Kai Austin

Being Deliberately Creative

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Kai Austin

Let me get one thing straight: I do not consider myself a creative person. This, coming from the guy who gets the phone passed to him to come up with engaging lesson plans for 5th graders or snazzy names for stuff. I do comics, have bucket lists of story ideas in progress; I have created 3 languages with respective worlds, have served as a writing consultant, and just do random sketches in general (from monsters to startups – yes you can sketch start-ups) which are utterly irrelevant to other people’s lives.

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Errata from Frankly Speaking: March Issue

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Frankly Speaking

Last month’s Build Day article was credited to Trevor Hooton, but should also have been credited to his co-author Thomas Dugger.

In the Honor Code Rewrite article, Victoria Coleman was listed as pertaining to the Honor Code Rewrite Committee, but it should have been Victoria Preston.

The article “Useless Words from Kelsey’s Collection” included a definition for ‘trichotillomania’. The characterization under “useless words” was not intended to minimize the condition, and Frankly Speaking apologizes for any distress caused by this categorization.

Quorum

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Dante Santos

not xkcd: Greatest Invention Ever

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Kai Austin

Editor in Chief Announced

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Frankly Speaking

Frankly Speaking is proud to announce that the search for the replacement for Kelsey Breseman, current editor in chief, has been happily concluded this past Monday.

Breseman shocked more than a few staffers when she announced the appointment of Nick Tatar, a staff member with whom most students will be familiar through his involvement with the Office of Student Life.

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Your Idea Here: Build Olin

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Trevor Hooton

By now, you’ve probably heard about Build Day. Maybe you’ve even been to a Pow-Wow ideation session. You can’t have missed the Big Bang, and maybe you joined a team. But maybe you aren’t quite sure what Build Day is, or how and why you should get involved leading up to May 3rd. In any case, strap yourself in and get ready for a thrilling exposé on the hottest thing since thermodynamics: Build Day!

Build Day, on May 3rd, is the culmination of a number of community-oriented semester-long projects. May 3rd has been reserved by the administration for the entire Olin community to work together on awesome projects: developed and implemented by teams of Olin students, faculty, and staff that will have a meaningful and lasting impact on our College.

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An Outside Eye on Theatre

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Rebecca Hooton

As a theatre maker in Toronto, I always find it fascinating to see the shows that come out of FWOP. This is the second time I have visited my brothers at Olin during Candidate’s Weekend, and I relish the opportunity to enjoy the spring show.

This year, there are two of them – one-acts, independent from one another but linked in many ways. Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, and No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre, respectively directed by Mitchell Cieminski, and the creative team consisting of Kelsey Breseman and Ian Hoover, will be presented again on Friday, March 1st at 8pm, and on Saturday at the same time. Even though I am on my February break from my devised theatre studies in Toronto, I appreciated a thought-provoking evening’s fare at Sorenson last weekend. It was encouraging to find such ambitious plays on the roster.