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...former instructor "a master artist." Indeed, it was his refusal to accept commonly held beliefs that made his work so beautiful. Unlike many others, he refused to tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed...
Other Polish students in the area expressed grief through activism. Two MIT freshmen organized a screening of a film detailing the 1940 massacre for students at MIT and Harvard on Saturday night. The same night, Kozak said he and his friends put up a small Polish flag on the wall of University Hall, but it was taken down the following morning...
...actor in the Math Department, Robert C. Rogers) gives a profound speech involving life, art, and outer space—and you’ll have to check out the episode to find out what Bay does when his perfect movie screening goes haywire due to some film-swapping chaos. We can tell you one thing though: there are a whole lot of expletives involved...
...UCLA film professor Chon A. Noriega examined the life and works of the Latino artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz in the latest of the Latin American Leventritt Lecture Series held at the Sackler Museum last night...
Flaherty’s five-point plan for creating new jobs in the state includes granting a tax credit to high-tech manufacturing companies, increasing loans to biotech startups, and fostering the growth of the film industry in Massachusetts...