The Fall 2011 issue of T E News tackled the big question: “What is Entertaiment?”

In one sense, entertainment is a momentary euphoria in which we forget our problems and wish it could last forever. It is also the means by which we acquire insight and achieve intellectual growth. In another sense, entertainment may be a form of work or even an act of cruelty for some people. Whatever the case, entertainment has the ability to cross over different media and demonstrate a seemingly unlimited potential for creative remix. The word itself derives from the Medieval Latin intertenere, from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere meaning to hold inside.