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Best Film on Campus, a Web site sponsored by mtvU, allows student filmmakers to submit their work online in a format much like YouTube.

Movie adaptations of graphic novels often revolve around superheroes performing amazing feats. With their focus on visuals and storytelling, comic books are ideally suited to the silver screen.

I didn’t support the hunger strike, but I don’t want to talk about that right now. Instead I want to talk about your reaction as you read that first sentence.

A few days ago, my friend’s little sister killed herself. I hadn’t seen my friend in awhile—her family moved away from Michigan, my home state, some years ago. I still think of her sister as a bouncy 12-year-old who loved 4-H, with a special fondness for pigs (the smartest domesticated animal, she said).

“I’ve got something really annoying to say,” I said. “It reminded me of the Iliad.” We were lined up at the urinals in the men’s bathroom, just after we walked out of the movie theater. Without waiting to hear my rationale, the guys met my confession with groans and much eye rolling, which can only be described as good judgment on their part.