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Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays as students travel home to spend time with their families. But as Riley and her sorority sisters prepare to deck the halls with seasonal parties, a mysterious cloaked figure starts to leave a bloody trail throughout the campus. Refusing to become hapless victims, Riley and her friends decide to band together and fight back against the psychotic Christmas killer. Not one to underachieve, R. Colin Tait (PhD ’13) co-authored his first book, The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh (with Andrew de Waard, Wallflower/Columbia University Press), https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinema-of-steven-soderbergh/9780231165518 while simultaneously pursuing his Ph.D. and navigating the responsibilities of new fatherhood. And, as if to make the balancing act more impressive, his dissertation was not about the book’s subject, Soderbergh, but on an entirely different topic: Robert De Niro’s contributions to Hollywood. Tait is lecturing at Texas Christian University (TCU) on Media Analysis and Introduction to Television Studies for Non-Majors, andis also be teaching History of Broadcasting.