For Karen Berman, adjunct assistant professor in theater and performance studies and artistic adviser to student theater groups, using advocacy is nothing new — she’s been advocating the importance of theater for the past three years as president of the Association for Theater in Higher Education.

Mask and Bauble’s latest show, the Tony Award-winning musical “Cabaret,” is a tough undertaking.

For Jacquey Anne Julio (COL ’10), being a performance coordinator for Club Filipino combines both of her origins: her Filipino heritage and the spectacle of her hometown of Northern Las Vegas, Nev. Currently choreographing three dances for the club’s annual Filipino Cultural Night, or Bayanihan, Julio has her hands and head full with stomping beats, banging coconuts and clicking castanets.

I left not really sure what I had just witnessed. A political satire? A tragicomic, philosophical metaphor on America’s current political situation? A modern Greek drama?

“Wisconsin Death Trip,” the Program in Performing Arts’ new production premiering now, is an appropriate title in more ways than one.

Artie Shaughnessy (Eddie Walsh, COL ’10), a struggling singer-songwriter lives in a mental institution. All the classic stereotypes are present: psychiatric doctors wielding straitjackets and crazy patients. One is a woman vacillating between thinking she is a dog and a normal 1960s housewife. Another is a boy who wants to kill the Pope with a homemade bomb.

Florence, Italy

Georgetown has not lost its edge.

The university’s application process became more competitive this year, as the acceptance rate for the incoming freshman class decreased and the yield increased, continuing a national trend of top colleges becoming even more difficult to get into.

While everyone gets a little nostalgic at the end of the academic year, probably not many are more nervous or excited than Ben Shaw (COL ’08), Ted Reilly (COL ’08) and Alicia Nelson (COL ’08). As the leaders of GUSA, the Corp, and Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service, respectively, these three students will have a lot on their plates next semester. They took a break from their hectic schedules to answer questions that only a true Hoya could appreciate.

Nelson

If you could be any animal, what would you be?

I would be a pink river dolphin because they can kill crocodiles, and that’s awesome.

In an age where the idea of meritocracy reigns, many students are forced to wonder where legacy fits into the mix.

To be sure, legacy does play a factor in admissions at Georgetown. The admittance rate for legacies is between 30-35 percent, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon, about 10 percentage points higher than the overall acceptance rate. Legacy applications are automatically given a second look in the admissions process, and some are given more consideration than others depending on the alumnus’ level of involvement after graduation from Georgetown, whether that be through donations, service on the Alumni Association or admissions interviews.