Need a Break?

If an ambitious freshman gets her way--and it looks like she will--Yardlings soon will have a place worthy of Paris' Left Bank to go to for study breaks.

Last week, Yardling Camille L. Landau '90 received a grant of nearly $500 from the Harvard-Radcliffe Arts Council to open a late-night art gallery of student works in either the Freshman Union or the Yard.

Landau says the gallery will be open between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. three nights a week and after brunch on Sundays. She says that she hopes to staff the gallery with student volunteers and that the exhibit room will feature student art, jazz and chamber music, poetry readings and food.

Landau says she has been planning such a gallery for more than two years.

"After my junior prom, I realized everything closed around 9:30 to 10," Landau says.

"I needed something to do after that last cup of coffee or last party," she says. "Something exciting."

She came to college, she says, with the idea of starting up a gallery that would be open "at the bizarre hour of three or four in the morning when you're finishing your paper."

Landau adds that she eventually wants to open a combination diner and art gallery that would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

More to Read

A freshman who thinks there are not enough outlets for Black literary expression on campus is doing something about it.

Norris H. Chase '90 decided during Freshman Week to revive Diaspora Magazine, a Black literary journal which ceased publishing four years ago. The result will be a new 50-page publication, replete with essays, poetry, short stories and commentary.

"Besides what BSA [the Black Students Association] publishes, this could be a sort of supplement to bring the student body to an awareness that Black people are out there and we do have something to contribute," says Edward O. Griffin '90, who will serve as financial officer for the publication.

The magazine has already received about 15 submissions and a $100 grant from the Harvard Foundation. The publishers plans to publish one issue this year and hope to get it out by February, which is Black History month. Two thousand free copies of Diaspora will be distributed at the Freshman Union and through the BSA.

BU's Excited