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...Class of 2011 will have to wait a year to sit in on Alison Simmons’ popular class, Philosophy 8, “Introduction to the History of Early Modern Philosophy.” Simmons, the Professor of Philosophy who has been highly active within the curricular review, is taking a sabbatical for the 2007-2008 academic year...
...never managed to have sex triumphs over the prodding and baiting of his jerky friends (including Rogen and Rudd) and finds a compatible mate. But The Girl (Catherine Keener) was hardly a character at all; her only function was to unleash a hearty laugh whenever Carell passed a joke. Alison, granted, is more prominent and complicated here. But for all the lip service Apatow pays to the guy-gal plot of Knocked Up, he invests much more energy and affection in the scenes of Ben with his friends and, emphatically, with Pete - who is the one person in the movie...
...Rudd in Knocked Up is Ben's humane, hunky alternative to his lower-life-form friends, and a closer soulmate than Alison. He can't have sex with Pete, but Alison can't make him laugh so hard - which is what matters in a guy-centric comedy. Ben is tolerant of Alison's weaknesses but attracted to Ben's strengths. He's not the Other, which guys like Ben think of women; he's the better, cooler Ben. At the film's climax, the two go off to Vegas, again not to have sex but to do some "shrooms...
...preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education, released in October by a committee chaired by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. The report, whose final version was approved by the Faculty last month, said that the Core Curriculum’s “emphasis on the disciplines may be misplaced...
...January 2006, Faculty members—including English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons—released a report in favor of distribution requirements, praising the system used at many other colleges for its “simplicity and trust...