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...morally and economically peculiar place about course enrollments. Institutionally we support catalog shopping, by printing, at considerable expense, both the Courses of Instruction and the CUE Guide, complete with instructor ratings. But live shopping is frowned upon, in spite of the familiarity we all have with the differences between catalog descriptions and the real products. The argument that one can’t begin teaching for a week because of shopping period seems odd, given that it is the instructor and not the student who is giving the lectures, assigning the homework and recording the grades. Shopping...
...outrage at the state of contemporary art. pornographic potter gunning for ?20,000, screeched the Daily Mail. But the tabs' time might be better spent exploring the cozy relationship between the Turner Prize judges and the nominees. Andrew Wilson, who short-listed Perry, was paid to pen a catalog essay on him for an exhibition of Perry's work in Amsterdam this year. Tate, the Tate Modern's magazine, which promotes the museum's activities - including the Turner Prize - reports that in 12 of the last 20 years, Turner Prize jurors came from galleries that had hosted exhibitions for nominated...
...KaiKai Kiki commune and you'll quickly discover that the hippie vibe the place radiates is a front. Looking past the shabby prefab trailers and scrubby farmland they skirt, you see that Murakami is as much a factory floor manager as an artist. Under his direction, computer researchers catalog recurring motifs for easy cut-and-paste reproduction, drafters transform sketches into outlines on canvas with robot-like precision, and technicians keep precisely documented recipes for the 70 to 800 colors used in each painting. All workers circulate e-mail updates on their progress every day (an idea Murakami borrowed from...
...final meeting of the year yesterday, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) discussed a series of issues related to making its course evaluation system more useful to students and professors, including a project aimed at linking an online version of the CUE Guide to the existing web-based course catalog...
...last issue under discussion at yesterday’s meeting was the possibility of implementing a system that would link the online capabilities of both the course catalog and the CUE Guide ratings. Wolcowitz said that he had been in discussions with the Instructional Computing Group, the University body which deals with issues of teaching and technology, about the creation of such a system...