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PODCAST | Derby Girls
Picture the toughest woman you know. Now picture her in a mini-skirt, fishnets, kneepads and roller skates. Imagine twenty women just like her slamming into each other as they skate around a roller rink, and you’ve got a typical Roller Derby match.
Updated on May 1, 2010
Mills Repertory Dance Company leaps into a new production
On a sunny Monday afternoon, the Mills College Repertory Dance Company is hard at work — and they’ve got the sore muscles to prove it. Their Haas rehearsal room is thick with the smell of soothing muscle balm and Ace bandages peek out from several duffel bags.
Updated on November 5, 2009
Century old campus home to intriguing hauntings
Imagine it’s a cold, gray night. The moon has cast a pale glow on the tree-lined paths of the Mills College campus, and you’re walking alone. As you walk, you go over the events of the day: that midterm you aced, the homework you didn’t do, your cute new crush.
Updated on October 28, 2009
American Idiot blasts from your iPod to the stage
The rock opera got a punk-and-plaid makeover with the Sept. 16 premiere of American Idiot, a rowdy new musical based on Oakland pop-punk group Green Day’s 2004 album of the same name.
Updated on September 23, 2009
Latest visiting writer brings storied life to the classroom
Faith Adiele must be a blast at dinner parties. From her time spent as a Buddhist nun in Thailand to her televised reunion with her father and siblings in Nigeria, the new Mills Distinguished Visiting Writer certainly doesn’t lack impressive stories—nor does she lack the talent to tell them.
Updated on September 23, 2009
Beloved icon Daphne Muse leaves Mills College
On Aug. 28, members of the Mills community gathered in the Mills Hall living room to celebrate Daphne Muse, professor and director of the now-canceled Women’s Leadership Institute, whose many titles throughout her life have included writer, educator, social commentator and civil rights activist.
Updated on September 15, 2009
Discover creative solutions to high priced textbooks
New classes inevitably bring new expenses, and soon students will begin to shuffle into the Mills bookstore with their syllabi in hand, hopeful there are still some used copies left of the books they need.
Updated on September 15, 2009
About Rashida Harmon
