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...Education began the meeting by summarizing their recommendations.The Report on General Education mandates that students take three courses in each of three major areas—Arts and Humanities, the Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Students could choose to fulfill their requirements with either departmental courses or broad non-departmental Courses in General Education.“The idea is to let the catalogue do the work of attracting students into courses,” said Diana Sorensen, professor of Romance languages and literatures and of comparative literature. She called the new system of general education...
...state” tourists descended on the isle of Manhattan like a plague of cornfed locusts just to see it.The widespread popularity of the musical was surprising: Not many would have predicted that a gritty depiction of inner-city poverty, drug addiction, and the ravages of AIDS would have broad appeal. (Maybe it had something to do with the show’s rockin’ soundtrack and attractive cast of multi-cultural twenty-somethings.)But all of this success was bittersweet, as the show’s writer and composer, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly from an aneurysm shortly before...
...World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren't any of them unemployed and angry about living in a nation that went to war in Iraq over oil, a war that has cost the lives of more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers? Stephen Spencer London...
...administration on issues like student advocacy and services, where the UC actually is the voice of the student body. It has no mandate to issue political proclamations, and should not act as if it does. Second, there are a large number of student groups that support positions on a broad swath of issues. These groups compete with one another to influence campus opinion and—if possible—the world at large. The UC should leave political advocacy to these groups and let the debate play out in public discourse rather than proclaiming the view of a diverse...
...Increase in TV scenes with sexual content from 1998 to 2005, according to a survey of programming from a broad sampling of shows...