E-Race-ing Stereotypes in Theater
By Larissa Lee, Staff Writer

This past October, my roommate took me to see Avenue Q for my birthday. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the show, it features a cast of Sesame Street muppets gone wrong. While the majority of the show featured raunchy themes or lyrics of questionable taste (which, by the way, I write as a sincere compliment to the show), one song stuck out in particular. The song entitled, “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” is probably the most publicized song of the show, but probably the most relevant to this article. Everyone’s a little bit racist, for sure, but where does do we draw the line between a joke and blatant racism? Where does the comedy stop and the racism begin? [more]

Ohashi's Powerful Integration
By Susan Hope, Special Contributor

The principle of opposites is ancient. In China, it formed the basis of the first medical book ever written, The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, which articulates the philosophy of opposites as yin and yang, the two forces that make all phenomena possible. It is these two primordial and essential energies that bring about all events in the physical world – including those in our bodies. Ohashi, who began his healing studies in post-WWII Japan and developed his insight and masterful technique over more than three decades of practice, teaching and observation of human nature in the United States, [more]