Robert Pesapane is stressed. This Wednesday, at 2:00p.m., the Salve junior has to convince the student body that he is Senator John Kerry in a mock Presidential Debate. Even to a seasoned politician, it proves no easy task.

“I’m representing views to people who don’t even know who John Kerry is,” Pesapane said.

In his own mind, George Lucas identified so closely with the rebellious young hero of the space adventure he was writing in the mid-1970s that he named the character Luke, after himself.

As he made the rounds at the studios to pitch a sci-fi fantasy he was calling “The Star Wars,” with each new telling, his movie sounded more and more like a parable of his own struggle to resist the soul-crushing heel of Hollywood.

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It’s that time of year again. The weather is just starting to become pleasant, the flowers are blooming, and the end of the academic year is swiftly coming to a close. Frantic seniors are hustling around campus in their freshly pressed suits preparing for their final presentations and senior theses. After four years, one thing’s certain: They aren’t the people they were as freshmen.