Archives for March 2015

Fintel Library and the Information Technology Division are pleased to announce the first-on-campus wireless printing pilot. Print from any e-mail enabled device.

It’s easy:

1. Send the document you want to print as an email attachment to print@roanoke.edu
2. Retrieve your print job from one of the printers in the first floor computer lab.
3. That’s it. (mostly)

A couple of details worth mentioning, when you retrieve your job, the email to which you attached your document will be in your print queue along with your document. You can either print it or delete it. You will also get a confirmation email from PrintMe Mobile indicating that your job was printed.

Need a break from all the research and writing rough drafts? How about a movie night! Here are some new titles that are available for check-out at Fintel Library.

22 Jump Street 

After making their way through high school twice, big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership.

 

And So It Goes

Realtor Oren Little, willfully obnoxious to anyone who might cross his path, wants nothing more than to sell one last house and retire in peace and quiet. Then, his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Clueless about how to care for the abandoned nine-year-old, he pawns her off on his determined and lovable neighbor Leah and tries to resume his life. But little by little, Oren stubbornly learns to open his heart; to his family, to Leah, and to life itself.

 

Boyhood

A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.

 

Il comandante e la cicogna = GARIBALDI’S LOVERS

Widowed plumber Leo is struggling to deal with the growing pains of his two adolescent children, when his life intersects with penniless artist Diana and her eccentric landlord Amanzio. Through a hilarious series of coincidences, they give each other new hope for their futures, and for the city itself, so emblematic of today’s times. Watch a fizzy ride through a magical vision of metropolitan Italy, while at the same time casting a critical eye on modern life in the city.

 

 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.  They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

 

Divergent

In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

 

Downton Abbey: Season 5

In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

 

Edge of Tomorrow= Live, Die, Repeat

In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault.  Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each life, Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are one step closer to defeating the enemy.

 

The Equalizer

McCall is a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by; he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened.

 

Frozen

“Fearless optimist Anna sets off on an epic journey–teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven–to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter”– Container.

 

Fury

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

 

Game of Thrones: Season 1-3

 

Gone Girl

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

 

Guardians of the Galaxy

Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand-with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.

 

 

 

Come to the Alumni Gym this Friday, March 20, at 8 PM for a FREE concert by the band HEARTBEAT. This is the first event for the Israel-Palestine Peace Month, and the last stop for the band’s tour, so bring your friends and let’s celebrate peace and love with some great music. There will also be a reception after the concert for the first 50 students in line, which will include snacks and  a chance to mingle with members of the band.

Come watch Rebel Without a Cause in Lucas, Room 215, from 7-10 pm and stay for the gender and sexuality discussion. Refreshments will be served!

On March 11, 2015 Fintel Library will hold an informal talk by artist Binh Danh featuring the artist’s book by Danh which he has donated to the college. Also on display will be the college’s copy of Walt Whitman’s 1855 first edition Leaves of Grass, a rare book of great importance and beauty. The talk and reception will run from 7:30 -9:00 P.M.

The artist’s website describes Binh Danh as:

“… an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war, both in Viet Nam and Cambodia—work that, in his own words, deals with “mortality, memory, history, landscape, justice, evidence, and spirituality.” His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on the Daguerreotype process.”  http://binhdanh.com/bio.html

The college’s copy of Walt Whitman’s 1855 (first edition) Leaves of Grass will also be on exhibit. Roanoke College English Professor Robert Schultz calls this volume “possibly the most important book of American poetry yet published.” Roanoke College’s copy was a gift from the class of 1965.

The American Academy of Poets speaks of the first edition of Leaves of Grass in its biography of Whitman.

“In 1855, Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass, a slim volume consisting of twelve untitled poems and a preface. He designed the cover, and typeset and paid for the printing of the book himself. Upon the completion, he sent a copy to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who praised it so highly that Whitman reprinted the letter, in subsequent editions—without obtaining Emerson’s permission. The letter from Emerson included the now famous line: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/book/leaves-grass