Artists celebrate vulnerability during the Gender Symposium
By Alannah Balfour The Gender Symposium Art Show filled Stamm Hall between March 7 and 9. Following past Symposia models, co-curators Sylvia Eisenbeis ’18, Claire Lyman ’18 and …
Articles by Alannah Balfour
Board approves tuition increase and fundraising campaign
By Alannah Balfour On Feb. 9, the Lewis & Clark Board of Trustees approved a 4 percent increase in tuition for the 2018-19 academic year. This resolution accompanies …
College students need to stand for gun laws
By Alannah Balfour Samantha Fuentes is an 18-year-old girl with mid-length dark hair and a bullet’s shrapnel forever lodged beneath her cheek and eye. She is one …
Belle & Sebastian release unsurprisingly nostalgic EP
By Alannah Balfour This past summer, I watched Belle & Sebastian perform at the Travelers’ Rest Festival in Missoula, Montana. The aging band bounced around each other, …
In US debut, Swedish novelist delivers heartbreak and joy
By Alannah Balfour Tom Malmquist’s first novel, “In Every Moment We Are Still Alive,” left me speechless. Translated from its original Swedish by Henning Koch, the author’s …
Kimbra proves she is more than just somebody we used to know
By Alannah Balfour When Kimbra first stepped onto the stage, you could hear the crowd hold its collective breath. The audience did not stop dancing until the …
Tune-Yards bring politics to the dancefloor
By Alannah Balfour Although Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner are no strangers to delivering social commentary through pop music, their most recent album “I Can Feel …