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...completely new array of choices when they arrive on campus next fall. Voting unanimously, the Faculty Council—the highest governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—approved a restructuring of life sciences concentrations yesterday that would eliminate biology in favor of a cluster of smaller, more specialized departments. The motion, put forward by Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman, still awaits approval from the full Faculty before any changes can be implemented and could be passed as early as next week. “We are completely revising and reorganizing all the life sciences...
...That sort of essentialism is in vogue in Hollywood. This year?s winner for Best Picture, Crash, was essentially a cluster of stock characters ambling on screen only to represent their respective ethnicities. The ambling always ended in racial slurs and suspicion. Like Black.White., nearly every action in the movie is explained by race. Carjacking? What else is a young black man to do? Suspicious of your Mexican locksmith? Well, what do you expect of upper-class white women? Racist cop feeling up your wife? That?s what happens when your dad gets screwed by affirmative action...
...good thing. The house benefits far more from having sociable (read: popular) people living in party suites than it does from having decent, quiet people in them. The House’s icons are the loci upon whom a vibrant House life can be built. And they tend to cluster in rooming groups that are ideal for these suites. If students think about their own Houses, they can identify a group of roommates that is ideally suited to live in a party suite, and most of the House could agree on who this group is. As it stands...
...Bounding past the officials, he turned his camera on a bird's nest high up in a poplar next to the mineral spring supposed to supply the lake. "He even takes pictures of that," marveled one official when Yu was out of earshot. Driving through town Yu passed a cluster of empty villas, waiting for the lakeside they'd overlook. Nearby, on a fenced-off piece of grass grazed an elephant and a giraffe, both made of plaster...
...hope is that if everything goes well, in the fall, when everyone comes back, there will be this spectacular cluster,” Lue said...