It doesn’t happen often, but it’s nice to see an occasional RPO review in your pages. Thanks for Samantha Miller’s recent piece. I’d like to see more students take advantage of this top-flight orchestra, especially considering Paetec Corporation’s generous underwriting of $5 student tickets. That’s an amazing deal.

The RPO is a fine orchestra with an excellent reputation and a distinguished past. Do take advantage of the RPO experience, and tell your friends.

-Harold JewellDepartment of Athletics and Recreation



Letter to the Editor: Orchestra review is appreciated

For graduated senior Helen Jackson, who hadn’t been able to go home for breaks for the past two years, these last few months have been a much-needed break. “I’m moving halfway across the country in July for my PhD program, so I probably won’t be able to come home very often after this,” she said. Read More

Letter to the Editor: Orchestra review is appreciated

The first realization of my own age hit me in the months before I started college. I was helping my dad clean the small office he’d occupied in Rush Rhees longer than I’d been alive. The walls of which boasted childhood drawings that my sister and I had crayoned. Even though I was looking at my distant past, I realized I would soon be starting a new page of my future. Read More

Letter to the Editor: Orchestra review is appreciated

As per tradition, “The State of the Campus Times” updates readers on our affairs — the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) and Publisher write this pseudo-column at the start and end of every semester to articulate the struggles and joys found through managing your local student-run newspaper. We also introduce ourselves and our projects, what we hope to achieve during our terms, and we provide progress updates regarding past management’s pursuits. Read More