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From my point of view, Epps' retirement provides the administration with the opportunity to hire someone who will be our representative, the metaphorical Allston Burr Senior Tutor of the College, who will be at once accessible to students and responsive to their concerns. And just as Dean Epps acted as a role model to many black students on campus, the next Dean of Students should also be a role model to those not already covered by Lewis, Knowles or Rudenstine...
Conor Killen, two-year-old son of Dirk Killen '82, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Pforzheimer House, and tutor Kristin Daly '89, will dress as Batman this year, combining holiday fashion and function...
...probably inevitable that the King of the Monsters--who made his debut in a 1954 Japanese film (re-edited and released in the U.S. two years later with new footage featuring Raymond Burr as an American reporter)--would sooner or later be remade. "For me, it was always very simple," says Emmerich. "Godzilla was one of the last concepts of the '50s that had never been done in modern form--that idea of the giant monster as in Tarantula or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Why not do them again?" But, he says, "we were really concerned about...
...strings are probably the genre's acme. With their mostly undistinguished arrangements backing the saxophonist as if he were a B-list crooner, the sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your-ear juxtapositions of hip-hop and electronica, may find something bracing in the sheer sound of these records, a pleasing shiver in hearing Parker's acerbic horn cutting against the schmaltzy grain of massed violins. Then again, this may be a minority opinion...
Entering the room, students sit at a squaretable along with the 30 to 40 tutors, includingtheir own Allston Burr Senior Tutor andadministrators who evaluate their case...