Dear readers, The Envoy will be on a brief hiatus during the summer vacation months, but be sure to check our website and/or the bins located throughout Hunter for our first new issue in the fall. Anyone interested in contributing to the paper as a staff writer or photographer should contact envoyeditor@gmail.
Who says art has to be beautiful? Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera shows audiences that "art isn't nice." Instead, The Threepenny Opera provides biting and cynical social criticism designed to provoke an unsettled audience. Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (Brett Warwick) and his wife, Celia (Jillian Stevens), are essentially lords of the impoverished, urban underworld of New York City (London in the original text).
The news in a recent issue of The Envoy that MtvU has its eyes on Hunter College cafeterias is troubling for numerous reasons. Few things are more odious to me than the idea of "several television screens in well-trafficked areas on campus" broadcasting MTV's noxious brand of "youth culture.