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...skimp on classroom time and instructional time,” said Paula A. Nichols, an administrator at the Lamar Center for Distance Education. The university also has a student body of approximately 10,000, of which the majority live off-campus; some commute a significant distance. When classes begin on Oct. 19, many students and faculty will be living in damaged houses, or trying to find temporary accommodation while their houses are repaired or rebuilt. “Lamar has a large number of older, non-traditional students who work half to full-time and also have serious family responsibilities...
...around piles of CDs any time soon, and we’ll all still be more willing to fill out questionnaires about summer research when there’s a potential iPod nano involved. Still, none of this means that we can’t start demanding that Apple begin to take its own advice, and play fair with FairPlay.Matthew A. Gline ’06 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...view that aging suddenly overtakes us at some point in life, whether at 60 or some other milestone. I meet researchers, physicians and others who believe that we are born, grow rapidly to maturity, and then coast along on a more or less comfortable plateau until we begin to decline. They call the period of decline senescence and consider it distinct and apart from what came before...
...surprise party. After the festivities, there came a time to reflect, and I came to an uncomfortable conclusion: I am closer to that period in life when my energy and powers will diminish and I will lose my independence. At age 60, the organs of the body gradually begin to fail and the first hints of age-related disease begin to appear...
...preventable illness. Exposure to tobacco smoke not only increases the odds of developing many kinds of cancer but also raises the risks of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Inhalation of vaporized nicotine is as addictive as the smoking of crack cocaine or crystal methamphetamine. Almost all cases of tobacco addiction begin in the teenage years or earlier; therefore, I address this message to young readers. Do not experiment with smoking: the chance of becoming addicted is too great, and this is one of the hardest of all addictions to break...