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Cserny’s prearranged goal, in the end, is not only to survive, but to excel...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: EuReka! Hoops’ Pure Gold | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...should generally be about 5 pages of text . . . We assume these will all be written on a computer (i.e. not hand-written). Figures may be hand-drawn, though, and no need or extra credit for fancy computer graphics. Some may find it easier/faster to use computer plots (e.g. use Excel), which we welcome...

Author: By Lowell K. Chow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Type A’s | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...spaced, and was accompanied by two illustrations done completely on the computer. Who needs hand-drawn figures when you can include high-resolution vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator outputted in EPS format for inclusion in a PostScript document? Who wants to use ordinary ol’ Microsoft Word and Excel when you can use PSTricks and LaTeX to generate book-quality pages? Who wants to spend four to eight hours cranking out this lab report when you can spend nine to fourteen hours—all in a row—to make sure that all the equations are aligned...

Author: By Lowell K. Chow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Type A’s | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...which is not available in any standard font. “Nice sketch” next to the Illustrator graphic of a sketch of the equipment setup. “Good!” again next to the PostScript-generated graph that is far fancier than anything Excel could make. “Well laid out!” as a general comment at the end of the report, right next to the big fat number telling me that I got full credit on this...

Author: By Lowell K. Chow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Type A’s | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

While some bands excel at pulling off a sound that is consistently bad, this album manages to be bad in an impressively divisive array of different vibes and song structures—though the falsetto vocals serves as the bedrock of vapidity that they continue to fall back on throughout the songs. While “7 Daughters” starts out with potentially awesome-sounding Nintendo tracking, the boring song structures and hipster vocals fail to move anywhere. The song “X-Polynation” shows the potential to be a people-mover with its initial driving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

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