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Keep committees and rules to a minimum, but require periodic reviews of course goals and effectiveness. Certainly, we cannot have so few rules that “anything goes,” but let’s use compact committees of faculty, responsible administrators, and student advisers to work out core principles and allocate supportive resources—and then leave the details to the creativity of instructors and departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely...
...Markell said Cho didn't give the slightest hint that he was capable of mayhem. The salesman who sold Cho the Glock 19 9mm semi-automatic compact pistol barely remembers him, according to Markell, who was not at the store when Cho shopped for his murder weapon. The salesman did recall, said Markell, that Cho browsed for awhile, then picked out a Glock 19, which was not an unusual choice. This Austrian-made pistol is popular among competition shooters. A slightly larger version of the Glock sidearm is the favored service weapon of most U.S. police and sheriff's departments...
...Glock 19 is sold with two magazines, each capable of holding 15 rounds, double-stacked to make a compact clip not much bigger than a harmonica. Judging by the number of fatalities and wounded - most of whom reportedly were shot more than once - Cho may have fired a hundred or more rounds. Loading magazines is a slow business, so Markell figures that Cho must have acquired several more magazines and more ammunition from some other source...
...turned out, the Glock 19 was perfect for Cho's deadly purpose. The gun is just 6.85 inches long and 5 inches wide, according to a Glock website, and thus easily concealed. A vest with several pockets can hold a number of compact 15-round magazines that fit a Glock 19. Cho surely knew that in cold weather a mass murderer could carry an arsenal on his back and in his pockets, and there would be no way to detect him, short of metal detectors at every entrance to every classroom building and dorm...
...ger’s new artistic technique. Both the representational and abstract pieces are dominated by the tubular forms and contrasting colors that Léger’s work is identified with. Despite their diverse subjects, the works in this exhibit possess similarly dynamic and compact compositions. Léger concentrates the energy in the center of each image with tightly arranged tubes and cubes that explode off the paper and rush at the viewer. White and black shapes interrupt the tan ground while curved lines abut sharp edges, creating the illusion of depth. The deconstructed shapes that...