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...Magara, NIU's assistant vice president for public affairs, "You can't remodel it. It cannot be repurposed. It's just a shell. It didn't take too long to come to the conclusion we needed to raze the building and perhaps build a new one." But, some observers ask, might it be possible - and more cost-efficient - to convert the two lecture halls into a collection of smaller classrooms? And why spend so much money tearing down a building that is still structurally sound? Leicht, the NIU senior, says he sensed little university effort to solicit an array...
...Toca, 66, says he and his wife tried to instill in their eight children the same family values they'd learned from their own parents. "We taught them to work hard," he says, and also gave them "a sense of austerity. Children should not be given everything they ask for. In my day our parents didn't give in to us." Rigid discipline and corporal punishment were common, he recalls, both at home and at school, and women's roles were largely limited to the family. Though he says his daughters share his traditional values, all five of them work...
...well-dressed strangers, a man and a woman who looked like they could be undergraduates, that is exactly what happened. The pair told Nagy that they were conducting a survey for a class, and although she was in a rush, she consented to help them out. The dogmatic duo asked her if she was familiar with the concept of God as a female figure. When she responded negatively, they pulled out a Bible and began citing passages in defense of their position. “It became clear fairly quickly that they were not performing any type of study...
Every Harvard student knows the freshman week routine. You meet, you shake hands, you ask the usual questions about concentrations, dorms, and roommates. Inevitably, someone asks: where are you from? For some students, the answer is complicated.When Melusi A. Dlamini ’10 tells people that he’s from Swaziland, a small nation between South Africa and Mozambique, he’s lucky if they even know the continent he’s from. “Every once in a while,” he says, “though not too often, someone will ask...
...ask me, if the award goes to a Harvard player, the choice is clear—it’s Cahow...