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...students hidden behind piles of library books. With that, the night had begun. By 6 a.m., another group of students had shed their headphones and shirts in favor of computer speakers and a topless dance party. On top of the wooden tables usually reserved for laptops, Red Bulls, and bound books, the students moved awkwardly to techno for the short period before the “Anti-Fun Czar” (i.e., the late-late-night guard) entered with orange citation slips in hand. As one student discovered on a 24-hour study binge in Lamont accompanied by Chinese takeout...
...afternoon, the scholarship winners spoke of the racial discrimination, financial hardships, and other challenges they faced prior to college. The $40,000 Ron Brown Scholarships honor exceptionally motivated and academically accomplished African American high school seniors. Winners provided a snapshot of their individual journeys in an anthology of essays bound in the hard-cover book, “I Have Risen,” which went on sale in late March. The book comes 10 years after the establishment of the scholarship in memory of the late Ron Brown, the first African American to serve as secretary of commerce...
Even so, people are still going to run afoul of alligators. And while three deaths in a week establish a benchmark of horror that probably won't be repeated soon, encounters between alligators and people are bound to increase. "We're putting our lives on the line," says Hardwick, "so you can have a safe backyard...
First, they aren’t bound by the same standard of accuracy. Traditional media has to draw a very distinct line between fact and opinion—interpretations are explicitly designated, conflicts of interest are expressly named. In contrast, live-blogging reports and online analyses carry the semblance of factual objectivity without any sort check to personal bias, and when they’re the public’s primary information source, this semblance can be mistaken for authenticity...
...ocher-drawn designs in the bark shelters of the Gagadju people, made the first commission of Aboriginal art. Painted on a small rectangular piece of stringybark by a now unknown artist, the white ibis was depicted in the X-ray style expressed in rock art for thousands of years. Bound for the then National Museum of Victoria, Aboriginal art made its first serious impression on Western eyes. Fifty years later, the people of Yirrkala revived the tradition for a historic land claim in Australia's federal parliament, with the so-called "bark petition"; one of its authors was Yunupingu...