BVN News

  “It’s fun to be someone you aren’t,” said senior Francine Gollub, a new photographer for the North Star, of her passion for acting. “It’s such an enthralling feeling–just to perform and be on stage. You feel like you’re on top of the world, and no one can stop you.”
Beyond the thrill of performing, Gollub said the best part of being involved in theater is the people. “I love everybody who’s in rep theater,” Gollub said. “I’ve never had a bad experience with any of them.”
Though Gollub loves theater, she said she is likely to pursue a more stable major in college. “As much as I’d like to [major in theater], I probably won’t [pursue] that in college. But I want to do theater throughout my life.”
Her second choice, she said, is photojournalism. “I love photography in general,” she said.”But in photojournalism, you’re capturing the moment in history. Regular photography looks at the scene, the person, but it doesn’t really tell what’s going on at that time.”
Gollub’s desire to document life extends to her interest in the social sciences, such as psychology, sociology, and economics. “A part of psychology is in sociology, because it’s about how people interact with one another. …People don’t think by themselves any more, they think in groups,” Gollub said.
She dreams of connecting photojournalism and the study of human interaction. “My dream would be to go to other places, and take pictures,” Gollub said. “I’d be both seeing how people live, and documenting it.”