Bring in da Noise,
Bring in da Funk

The jazz-funk trio Medeski, Martin, & Wood will bring their music to Chapin Auditorium on April 25. The Chicago Tribune called them "one of the most original and innovative trios in jazz today. [They] have forged a musical idiom that is lean, muscular, urgent and mysterious ... The result is music at once accessible yet harmonically profound, danceable yet never less than cerebral."

Life and Letters

In connection with
the seventy-fifth annual Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest, poet-
judges (left to right) Gjertrud Schnackenberg , Ellen Bryant Voigt, and
Richard Wilbur spoke
with students about the writing life.

Blanchard Café looked a
bit Wilder this week as brightly colored banners were hung from the railings. Each celebrates
a residence hall.