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RELIGION VIRTUES Attending religious services helps low-income kids do better in school, suggests a study by sociologists Mark Regnerus of Calvin College and Glen Elder Jr. of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In a nationwide survey, the professors found that students from poor neighborhoods who attended services found role models in the congregation who inspired them to do well. Religious communities did not have as much influence over more affluent kids...
DOGMA Artist Stephen Huneck has built a canine chapel in Vermont, a sacred space for those who have loved and lost dogs. Open to the public...
...grew up in the cloudy Pacific Northwest, designs buildings that cherish and supervise every sunbeam. Light gathers in the alcoves of his Bellevue Art Museum in Washington State. It sweeps across the arcs of his Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. It pulses through colored glass in his Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, a building he once described as "seven bottles of light in a stone...
...City, is famous too for a fine-fibered sense of materials. One of his organizing principles he describes as "the stone and the feather," that being his notion of how weight and weightlessness are best understood in the presence of each other. You understand them better yourself at the Chapel of St. Ignatius, where thin sheets of zinc roofing meet rough concrete walls along knife-edged junctures. The heft of the concrete accentuates the fine metal, which reciprocates by pointing up the raw mass of the heavier material...
Daniel P. Mosteller ’03, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Mather House. He went home to Chapel Hill, N.C., before returning to Cambridge to write for The Crimson’s summer editions...