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“Emerson Parents Against Antisemitism” is a group where Jewish Emerson families can find community. But one Emerson faculty member has used the forum as a space to identify and allegedly directly inform college administrators of community protest activity to get the school to take disciplinary action.
Jonathan Kirkpatrick set the bar high when he submitted his senior capstone BFA pitch a year ago: staging a play with a live audience as a film. This past weekend, it was brought to life in the form of “When Summer Ends,” an experimental theater-film hybrid performance.
Instead of the typical one-medium theater experience one would expect, two camera operators took turns on stage filming various scenes of the play to create a separate short film that was livestreamed on a screen above the stage. The idea for the BFA came to Kirkpatrick before Emerson College, when he was fully immersed in high school theater in Virginia and not yet a visual and media arts major.
I know the Dallas airport like the back of my hand. I fly through it anytime I have the privilege — and time — to visit my family back home, and the shiny American Airlines terminals have become a constant across my time split between Louisiana and Boston.
But the inclusion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in airports has shattered that stability, and it should scare you.
Mer Hughes Archives
I have written more than 70 stories in three years for The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College's only student newspaper. Click to see my entire portfolio for The Beacon, including op-eds, news and sports article, a few arts pieces, and graphics I have made.
As a summer intern for KTBS - TV in Shreveport, LA the summer after my freshman year of undergrad, I had the great privilege of writing 22 web articles. This internship introduced me to the world of broadcast journalism. I wrote scripts for the 5pm news as well as created my own graphics for a few stories. View some of my web articles by clicking the picture on the right.
