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Radcliffe College may be having an identity crisis, but The Bunting Institute is still providing top-notch academic discussions for the interested outsider. This week, historian Ann Blair presents a colloquium on "Coping with Information Overload: Encyclopedic Reference Works in Early Modern Europe." Followed by a Brown Bag Lunch discussion on Thursday. Wednesday 4 p.m., Thursday 12:30 to 2 p.m., The Bunting Institute, 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, 495-8212, FREE...
...other business, several council members reported on attending the Ivy Council, a colloquium of Ivy League student governments, at Cornell University last weekend. They returned with a book of information from the other schools about 12 issues common to each campus. The Ivy Council elected Karteron as one of its vice-presidents for the coming year...
Interviews in the fall are conducted at the Office of Career Services, 54 Dunster Street. Interviews for Spring Recruiting will be held at Hilles Library in the Colloquium Room. There are some instances where companies may be recruiting off-campus. You will be notified of the location when you are accepted for the interview...
...monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora. Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Denver, an eclectic colloquium of Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures, constituted one of the great spiritual bazaars of the 1970s. One of its most popular courses, after Trungpa's dialogues with such people as Timothy Leary, was a seminar offered by Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, two former Peace Corps volunteers who returned from...
Your excellent article on El Nino mentioned the two-week colloquium on the phenomenon held in Boulder, Colo., in July [SCIENCE, Aug. 18]. We'd like to make it clear that this conference was sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Advanced Study Program. For those interested in the meeting's outcome, see the Web page at www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/enso MICHAEL GLANTZ, Colloquium Organizer National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colo...