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...about turning grass into T-bones," he says. "It's a magic industry." By 9.30 a.m., it's smoko. The billy boils, banter flows. Cook Jill has brought buttered bread, treacle and sausage rolls. Slightly less grubby from work than the men and Swedish traveler Christine are two first-year veterinary science students from Melbourne. Emma Zalcman and Kristie Jennings are getting valuable farm exp-erience and having fun. "The interaction between city and country people has virtually gone," says Burton, who stayed up most of the previous night getting to know the youngsters. "No one seems to have relatives...
...With his graying hair, trim moustache and park-ranger look, Boyle is a soothing presence. The one-time carpenter and technical college teacher has been at Yiyili for nine years. Although many first-year graduates have passed this way on an adventure, several experienced teachers have made long-term commitments to the school of 60 students. The word is that Boyle's longevity, persistence and calm temperament-together with the leadership of board chairman Norman Cox-explain much of the school's success. Boyle, who witnessed a long, slow decline, senses that things may have turned around for indigenous people...
...dean of Ivy Yard for the past six years—will focus on first-year advising and oversee the peer advising program. Established this spring, the program was designed to “replace and augment” the 20-year-old Prefect Program as a part of the College’s comprehensive curricular review. Mancall’s advising role will also extend to advanced standing, visiting, and transfer students, Gross said. “The new position will allow me to consider first-year advising issues more globally,” Mancall wrote...
...boys are not declaiming Latin[an error occurred while processing this directive] but staring into computer screens, trying to master the database program Microsoft Access. Though a student once told Maxwell that typing was something he could leave to his daddy's secretary, the school insists that all first-year students learn to type, so that they can use their mandatory laptops on the fiber-optic network that links every classroom and bedroom to teaching resources and the Internet. Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class. The questions are earnest...
...important to note the liberal exceptions to this trend: kids are turning left on marijuana and gay marriage. Nearly 40% of first-year students now support legalizing pot (the most since the '70s), and an astonishing 59% of 18-year-olds think same-sex couples should be able to legally wed. (Only about 30% of all Americans do.) But in the context of the other numbers, those positions may indicate a libertarian rather than leftist orientation. The Libertarian Party, which advocates minimal government interference in people's lives, has members on 306 campuses, twice the figure of 1997-98, according...