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Live piano music floats over the audience’s heads. The spotlight floods the stage, and a redheaded maid in chic black and white appears to exclaim, “Here it is the middle of August and the coldest day of the year. It’s simply freezing; the dogs are sticking to the sidewalks; can anybody explain that?” Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” is PUC’s latest stage production; and though it is showing on a small, somewhat unremarkable stage, its array of comic wit and incisively thought-provoking questions transcends the venue to move and delight audiences. “The Skin of Our Teeth” sports some of the same cast and directing team that produced last spring’s “Fiddler on the Roof” at Lincoln Theater. Students Cammie Wheeler, Tim Wolcott, and Rachel Reeves capably take on the leading roles, while other students and faculty play characters that range from a mammoth to a bingo parlor manager. The production is under the expert direction of San Francisco-based director and PUC Resident Artist Mei Ann Teo and dancer and choreographer Casey Delaney. While this production of Wilder’s play keeps viewers laughing and engaged, it also delivers a bundle of powerful and timely messages about humanity and hope; it sends...

Sunday evening, December 3, brought an influx of cookies, guests, and music to the women’s residence halls at the annual Christmas open house. Swags and baubles were rampant throughout the dorms, as girls opened their spiffed-up abodes for friends and strangers to survey. The women’s dorm open house is traditionally one of the most festive occasions of the season on the PUC campus, with resplendent parlors and foyers and many girls banding together to decorate their halls. Hot drinks and decadent treats are provided by each dorm, and all visitors are welcome to mingle and ramble through the halls. The gentlemen of the campus are particularly appreciative of the opportunity to observe the ladies’ excellent decorating techniques, and to enjoy their company in such a cheery holiday setting....