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...they discouraged students from exploring material outside the mainstream and bored faculty who were forced to teach the same texts year after year.“No other Classics department has a general exam for undergraduates,” Schiefsky said. “Our general exams were in effect qualifying exams for Ph.D and M.A. candidates...That’s not what the concentration should be. It should be part of a liberal education.”Many current concentrators said they are sad to see the general exams go. “I’m conflicted about...
...echo the uncomplicated wordplay of hip-hop’s early days, the lyrical content becomes hopelessly mired in uninventive rhymes and hackneyed phrases. On “I Got Sumthin’ To Say,” Lordikim flows over the energetic, drum-heavy track to cringe-inducing effect: “Baby, you bad—not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good.” Paired with insipid production, these lyrical offenses render several tracks unremarkable at best.“He was the first to put his fingertips on vinyl, spinning backwards and that?...
...surrounding community. There’s performance art, which takes place in the public sphere. Some of it is like that of Improv Everywhere, which occurs just for the pleasurable (if perplexing) spectacle. Other performance art is like that of Tehching Hsieh, which is profoundly political and aims to effect a change in its audience’s consciousness. But the art that I’m writing here about is more than just performance, it is performative. I’m writing about the art that transformed Bogota, Colombia from a capital of corruption and crime into a city...
...with courage and curiosity. At other times, the interface between childhood and adulthood is not destructive, as in “I Box Up All The Butterflies,” or monumental and adventurous, as in “Saddle Up,” but simply blurred for poetic effect. Lines like “I’ve got a little bag of marbles and a catapult wound around my fingers” show the narrator conflating the playthings of kids and grownups, reframing medieval warfare as simple schoolyard mischief. If the saccharine sweetness of The Boy Least Likely...
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Center on Media and Child Health reported on Monday that television has neither a positive nor negative effect on the cognitive development of young children...