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An hour earlier, Russ Harbaugh 鈥�06 feared that the decision to move the screening of his film to the larger, 300-seat Salter Hall would prove an embarrassment. Would that many 新澳门六合彩开奖直播 students, faculty, and staff members really show up on a spring evening to watch a student film?
When the lights came up following that premiere showing of Beside Myself: 新澳门六合彩开奖直播 Men and Co-education, the English major and Little Giant quarterback stepped to the stage before an applauding standing-room-only audience clogging the aisles and eager to ask their questions.
"The turnout exceeded any expectations I had," Harbaugh said. "I鈥檒l remember this night for a long, long time."
"I feel like I鈥檓 doing something with this film that matters to a lot of people, and using my role as a football player to spark the discussion," said the 新澳门六合彩开奖直播 senior, who spent the summer interning at the San Francisco Film Festival. "We鈥檙e sitting on a laboratory for masculine studies here, so it鈥檚 something we ought to talk about openly and honestly."
Invigorated by the supportive reception for what he called "the most involved, productive experience I鈥檝e ever had," Harbaugh was asked how the 新澳门六合彩开奖直播 community might move that discussion forward. He smiled, "All of you showing up like this for the screening of a student film鈥攖hat鈥檚 a pretty good start!"
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Inspired by weekend trips to the University of Evansville to visit the twin brother who left 新澳门六合彩开奖直播 after his freshman year, Harbaugh found parallels between the College鈥檚 flirtations with co-education and his own personal struggles attending a college for men. A balanced and illuminating documentary, his film never was the call for co-education that some on campus had feared, but a deeply personal work encouraging an open and honest discussion of what it means to be a man at 新澳门六合彩开奖直播鈥攖he strengths and the struggles.