Supporters of Kenyan runner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot celebrate by chanting and hoisting flags at the finish line on Boylston Street after Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon for the fourth year with a time of 2:07:43.
This week, Emerson's WERS radio station will broadcast nationally on XM Satellite Radio's XMU, a channel for independent rock and unsigned artists. The broadcast is part of XMU's Student Exchange Program, which provides college radio stations the opportunity to take over the airwaves on Sunday afternoons.
If there's one stereotype about debaters that rings true, it's that they've got a way with words, a finesse for language, a gift for gab. True to form, Emerson's Speech and Debate Team used those skills to talk their way to the National Forensic Association's competition in Nashville this past weekend, with sophomore Meredith Constant making it past quarter- and semi-finals to rank sixth in the After-Dinner Speaking category, a form modeled after traditional persuasive and humorous speeches given after dinner parties.
Channel 7 WHDH general manager, Randi Goldklank was charged with assault and battery of a police officer following an incident at Logan International airport, The Boston Globe reported yesterday. Goldklank was a guest lecturer last month at an Emerson event sponsored by the Journalism Department and the college's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
In the tradition of mock-documentary film making, life and art imitate one another freely, often with hilarious results. For Jim Cummings and Derek Smith, art and life became one in the same. The pair are behind the wry mockumentary Spacerock, about a pair of students who pitch a sci-fi romance movie to their college's student film association, but are rejected and forced to produce the film independently.