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Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck says the House ordinarily requires that prospective tutors take a two or three year hiatus from House life after they graduate. However, Passe is an exception because she is not a tutor in the usual sense of the term...
...have always had a live-in House manager who lives on the third floor of the masters’ residence and keeps an eye on the overall management of the first floor of the House and the community activities we have there,” says Eck. She explains, “We think hospitality is an important part of community building among students and faculty, and [Passe] is part of our household hospitality...
...percent to 0.53 percent). While a portion of these numbers comes from the immigrant Asian population, “there has also been a turn toward Buddhism on the part of [non-Asian] Americans,” Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck writes in her 2001 book, A New Religious America. The interest in Buddhism in America is mostly fueled by interest in meditation, which many perceive as a trendy and reliable form of stress relief. The image of Buddhism in popular culture is also often linked to what converted-Buddhist Roxanna K. Myhrum...
...drama. The one thing that it does do is stimulate and challenge. Enticingly, the organizers are accompanying the run with panel discussions, film screenings, and a series of post-show sessions with activists and faculty members, including the ever-popular Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana Eck. This kind of coordinated planning is a great touch from SAA and BGLTSA, who understand that the true purpose of Gheri Dosti and its surrounding events is to get people to think. In this, they succeed marvelously...
...Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, said she is well aware that those who are Russian Orthodox consider the bells, which are covered with icons, sacred...