Heard on Campus

Throw an anti-Valentine's Day party: Your guests may think you're bitter, but you can win them over with delicious heart-shaped cookies. Painted black, just like your heart. You jaded emotionless monster.

—Natalie Olivio offers some anti-Valentine's day advice in the Feb. 14 edition of The Denisonian.
"One minute!"

—Dada Masilo, a popular South African dancer who's American premiere performance will take place on the Swasey stage as part of the Vail Series, gives students in her master class a time limit for their water break. She was smiling when she said it .... but we don't think she was kidding. For more on Masilo, visit TheDEN.
"We shall overcome."

—The Denison community closed the annual MLK convocation yesterday in song.
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—It's pretty quiet around here now that all of the students have left for break. We're taking off, too, so we'll see you in 2012!
You come and you do something like this, and you know what? This is what we're supposed to be doing.

—An employee of TOMS shoes tells others what it's like to give shoes to children who don't have any in the company's documentary about its One for One movement. For every pair of TOMS shoes bought, the company donates a pair to a child in need. Denison's TOMS campus club held a screening of the documentary at the Bandersnatch on Nov. 3.
"If you think of dreams as projects, they become more manageable. You can break them down into tangible steps and start clipping away at them. If you think of dreams as dreams, it's easy for them to stay that way."

—Jonnie Penn of The Buried Life at Swasey Chapel on October 11, 2011.
"I never, ever, ever in my life intended to go into politics or public service."

—Secretary James A. Baker III in a talk given as part of the Mary Elizabeth Babcock lecture series at Swasey Chapel on Oct. 13, 2011.