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...ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, a series that features Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...neither professors nor students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise most of any Great Books curriculum. That over 100 freshmen applied to Russell’s fall semester seminar bespeak an unrecognized demand to the contrary. Once an instructor at Columbia, whose equivalent of the Core still consists of a general education in “Great Books,” Russell specialized in teaching the non-Western components of the curriculum. He has imported this emphasis into his Harvard seminars; alongside Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and the Bible are added the Bhagavad Gita...
...food-safety lab, showed Coke’s bottled drinks conformed to international safety norms vis-à-vis pesticides. Another, conducted by Cal Safety Compliance Commission, one of the largest compliance investigators in the U.S., found no evidence of labor violations at Coke’s plants in Columbia. Granted, both of these studies were paid for by Coca-Cola (and the Cal Safety study was apparently altered in some small way by Coke), but the companies that conducted them have reputations just as Coca-Cola does. It is doubtful that Coke could have somehow “paid...
...With the win, the Crimson started out 2-0 in the league for the first time since the 2002-2003 season. Harvard has never started out 3-0 in Ivy play under Sullivan...Penn breezed past Cornell and Columbia this weekend to join the Crimson at the top of the league leaderboard. Yale took its home opener against Brown to open its Ivy slate. Those three teams constitute all of the league’s remaining undefeateds after one full weekend of play. The Bulldogs are back in action this weekend against Brown, while Harvard won’t play...
...wide variety of seemingly disparate concepts in chemistry and biology...in reality fit beautifully together to form a coherent understanding of a biological system and a basis for tackling the problems that arise when the system is involved in human disease,” Liu writes.Unlike Princeton and Columbia, where similarly interdisciplinary classes are limited to concentrators or non-concentrators respectively, the LSEC members worked to create a course attractive and accessible to students in all concentrations and to incoming students regardless of previous science background.The class begins with fundamental concepts, but quickly moves into advanced examples at the forefront...