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...departments especially hard, since the sciences already enjoy substantial outside funding. Their Slavic department is dying, with at most one graduate student matriculating next year. Ultimately the choice for the humanities division came down to hiring new faculty or accepting more graduate students--and they decided to focus on the former, reducing the size of their incoming graduate school class by 25-30%. At least that will mean they will graduate fewer unemployed Ph.D.s...
...leaders” Miller refers to are students who have taken part in the Outing Club’s Leader Training Program. An integral part of the club, the program prepares students for safety and survival in the outdoors. Consisting of a number of workshops that focus on skills such as compass and map navigation and weather preparedness, the program features two wilderness-training trips: one in the winter and one that is geared more towards backpacking.“All leaders also get wilderness First Aid and CPR certification,” says Miller. “In order...
...that the Web site may change direction. “What Jason and I have been struggling with is, should this remain a social enterprise or should it become a for-profit enterprise?” he says. Although this decision is yet to be made, the current focus is to make small changes such as improving the site’s visual layout. Nonetheless, Shah’s mentors seem impressed with his current success, and it is likely that he will have a future in entrepreneurship. “Jason is incredibly charismatic, and he has the right...
...juxtaposition of ubiquitous plastic toys and brutal violence may seem downright strange, but there's something eerily familiar about LEGOs that brings issues like waterboarding into sharp focus. Says Legofesto: "The incongruity between the immoral and horrific acts and events depicted and the smiley-faced childrens' toy creates a tension." Legofesto says she decided to recreate images of torture and violence out of LEGOs due to the reluctance of media organizations to publish enough actual, real-life images of what she views as criminal acts. The images range from the death of a protester at the recent G-20 meeting...
...focus on his past, Sessions isn't even the most conservative member of the committee. According to rankings by the American Conservative Union, Sessions comes in third in a group of seven with a 95 rating, behind Senators Tom Coburn (97.8) and John Kyl (96.96). When asked about Sessions' reputation for bomb-throwing, Hatch chuckled and said, "Well, so do I. So does everybody on the committee, on both sides. They're really good blockers, I tell ya. That's a tough committee. It's a partisan committee, as it should...