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...WORLD Shimoda's floating aquarium would be just another run-of-the-mill m?lange of fish tanks and lazy sea otters were it not for one feature: heavy petting. Of dolphins, that is. The aquarium offers a variety of "dolphin contact" activities like the one I witnessed at the outdoor pool. Five rubber-suited visitors waded hip-deep into the water to touch, rub and coo over a handful of trained dolphins, including one that resembled a small whale. The idea of touching animals with big teeth freaks me out, so I retreated to the relative calm...
Allston Burr Senior Tutor Maria Trumpler sent an e-mail to Quincy House residents last Thursday night informing them of the burglary and urging them to contact HUPD if they have any information related to the burglary...
...hope is that these meetings will allow us contact with individual students beyond student groups,” Leaning said. “Often those students who ordinarily do not speak publicly about these issues give us the most important and valuable feedback...
...students. Though Cornel West once served as a faculty adviser to the Black Men’s Forum and taught a class that drew some of the largest crowds of any professor at Harvard, some students say he has not had as stellar a record on personal contact with students. Last fall, some reported having to sign up as far as two months in advance to get into the celebrated professor’s office hours...
Some professors say they won’t let student contact be the factor in the equation that is diminished to make room for time for being a public intellectual. MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker, whom FM tracked down on the West Coast in the midst of a six-week tour to promote his new book, The Blank Slate, says he makes a point of answering students’ e-mails on the same day that he receives them. But still, as Pinker admits, in order to be an effective public intellectual, “something?...