Word: cowens
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...Tulane freshmen include a written petition and a rally on Wednesday afternoon in front of the Science Center. Tulane students and parents also continue to plea their case. The father of one visiting Tulane freshmen, Paul Nikolich, wrote an e-mail to the president of Tulane University, Scott Cowen, last Wednesday requesting that his son be released from the “obligation to return to Tulane for the spring term so that he may apply to stay at Harvard.” But Cowen clarified that Tulane did not require his reenrollment. “Your son needs...
Rispler likes it at Wash. U—in fact, she’s trying to transfer there permanently. But Tulane University President Scott S. Cowen has discouraged host schools from allowing visiting students to do that. The Harvard Office of Transfer Admissions, in compliance, will not allow visiting students to apply for transfer admission...
...consultant on Hanks' other space projects--to explain how to do everything from operating the module control stick to walking in one-sixth G to maneuvering around another grimy, unshaven, bulky-spacesuit-wearing man in a lunar-module interior no bigger than two telephone booths. Hanks and Cowen then went heavy on the handheld, point-of-view shots and layered on the 3-D. The result is an IMAX movie writ even larger than most. With intercuts of archival footage, Hanks' narration and commentary by contemporary kids, it is a glorious tutorial on all things lunar...
...reflections as the movie moon walkers explore the faux surface. The plum role--NASA nobleman Neil Armstrong--is voiced by Hollywood nobleman Morgan Freeman. Armstrong's characteristically minimalist style suited the actor. "Morgan looked at Armstrong's lines, nodded and said, 'O.K., let's do this,'" says director Mark Cowen...
...only historical liberties Hanks and Cowen took in their 40-min. moon ride were small ones. The curators of the lunar vehicles wanted to keep the machines free of dust, so the interior of the module stays clean--far different from the gunpowder-scented, soil-covered surfaces the astronauts describe. Hanks also had the actor astronauts lift their gold-colored visors more often than their real-life counterparts did, revealing the clear faceplates--and faces--underneath. "We wanted to remind audiences that those were human beings up there," he says...