Nicholles Klevisha Connector Staff For many students, public speaking is a dreaded prospect to be avoided, and that fear has translated into the context of the classroom. Professor Rita Sullivan of the English Department said she tells her students every semester that this fear will last unless they confront it. “If you’re not going to…
Wigging out with Hedwig
Nicholles Klevisha Connector Staff Transgendered people have often been depicted in media as being big, brassy and sassy and are sometimes used as a punch line. In “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the “internationally-ignored song stylist” Hedwig is all of those things, but the jokes being told are on her terms. The Broadway rock-musical is…
The end was nigh: ‘End Days’ at the Comley Lane Theater
Nicholles Klevisha Connector Staff The Steins have been fragmented ever since Arthur, a worker in one of the buildings that fell down during 9/11, withdrew from his family into a deep depression. His wife, Sylvia, has become a born-again Christian, and a 16-year-old Elvis impersonator is trying to court their Goth daughter whenever milk cartons…
UMass Lowell to host seventh Relay for Life
Lindy Reed Connector Staff UMass Lowell, as part of Colleges Against Cancer, is set to host its seventh Relay for Life event on April 10, 2015 at the Campus Recreation Center. The university community got a headstart at signing up for one of the American Cancer Society’s biggest events at the Relay for Life Kick-off…
Manchester Orchestra’s stripped-down ‘Hope’
Tyler Peyman Connector Contributor Serving as a companion piece to the group’s fourth studio effort, “Cope” (released earlier this year), all efforts to describe “Hope” will fall short without a proper explanation of it’s counterpart. “Cope” is, for lack of a better phrase, a bull in a China cabinet. It’s the wild, untamed twin of…
Pradeep Kurup named Distinguished University Professor
Michael Caizzi Connector Staff The old saying “Good things come to those who wait” is a lie. Good things come to those who go out and earn them, and by all accounts, Professor Pradeep Kurup of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has earned them. Professor Kurup recently received the honor of being made Distinguished…
An unorthodox physics major
Alexis LaViolette talks about her dedication to physics Adeja Crearer Connector Contributor “Everyone thinks I must be somewhat of a genius for choosing to study medical physics,” said Alexis LaViolette, a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Striving to become a medical physicist, LaViolette says she puts in hours of studying equations until she…
SGA update: parking, printers, books and fountains
Tyler Cote Connector Staff Senators of their respected colleges met at University Crossing, as they do every week, to discuss matters on campus. With deliberation and formal discussion by everyone involved, some important topics were brought to the table. A hot issue this year has been the bookstore and its overwhelming prices that tower over…
