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SHARE BUTTON An interview with Stacie Lents by Gary Wien The issue of race on college campuses is looked at from the perspective of two groups of roommates in the same dorm room, separated by 50 years, in Stacie Lents’ new play, College Colors. The play has its world premiere this February at Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick. Lents, who is director of acting and the Barn Theater at Fairleigh Dickinson University, is a proNewJerseyStage.com fessional playwright and actor. New Jersey Stage spoke with her about the new play. What is College Colors about? College Colors moves back and forth between the stories of two sets of roommates--one in the sixties and one today--in the same dorm room on the same college campus. Each pair includes one white student and 2016 - ISSUE 1 Table of Contents 49