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...crucial component of the first-year seminar application is an interview, which is often given to groups of two or three. I had expected 20 minutes of torment and stress underneath intense scrutiny from professors whose academic repertoire and expertise would read like the hefty course catalog in my backpack. I would be yet another illiterate ingrate in their retinue. But professors here did not prove as frightening as I had imagined they would...

Author: By Ben A. Loehnen, | Title: First-Year Seminars Remove Anonymity | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...course catalog lists 70 first-year seminars for 1997-1998. With an approximate enrollment of 12 per seminar, this means that the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) can only accommodate about 25 percent of the Class of 2001. Despite the work done by the FDO to maintain this program, it still cannot serve all first-years. The College should work to facilitate the FDO's work by funding increased numbers of first-year seminars...

Author: By Ben A. Loehnen, | Title: First-Year Seminars Remove Anonymity | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...computer user to create an electronic "passport" that identifies him to online marketers without revealing his name. The user tailors the passport to his own interests, so if he is passionate about fly-fishing and is cruising through L.L. Bean's Website, the passport will steer the electronic-catalog copy toward fishing gear instead of, say, Rollerblades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVASION OF PRIVACY | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...impact on your own life. How about the UPS strike? Yes, of course, a responsible citizen is concerned with analyzing the role played by part-time jobs in the American economy, but perhaps not as concerned as he is with whether or not those two polo shirts from the catalog company--one in puce, one in taupe--will arrive in time for the most important weekend of the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS BUT MY OWN | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around the monuments of Angkor is the land mines and other explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: ANCIENT, FROZEN SMILES | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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