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...most guy-oriented comedies, originality is the merest wrinkle. (What if this 40-year-old man were ... a virgin?) Give writer-director Jody Hill two cheers for asking: What if we did a workplace comedy, and the focus of our attention and sympathy were on a fellow - played by Rogen, everyone's favorite jovial slob - who is this close to the simmering psycho Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin...
...need for such changes. But, with the imminent departure of Nancy Mitchnick, one of only two painting instructors in the department, the university appears to be moving in the wrong direction. Undergraduates already have a dismayingly small number of studio art courses to choose from, even fewer of which focus specifically on painting. Moreover, studio courses are generally limited to 12 students, and, given the limited number of courses, priority must be given to VES concentrators. This situation makes it very difficult for non-VES concentrators to have the experience of taking a studio art course during their time...
...addition, we urge the administration to follow through on its rhetoric regarding the allocation of university resources. In their letter to the campus community, Deans Smith and Hammonds explained that discontinuing plans for a January term would allow the university to focus on developing other programs, including the transition to General Education, improving freshman seminars, and supporting the Arts Task Force. We hope that this rhetoric was not a set of hollow excuses for dropping J-term activities but instead a sincere commitment to focus additional resources on these other pressing issues...
...amount of focus actually goes up on those nights,” says Compton. “The number one rule is that you can’t change the show. So when these little things change you have to figure out how to get it back...
Although his parents urged him to study medicine, Jimmy Weiskopf dropped out of college and in the 1970s moved to Colombia, where he eventually began to focus on a different kind of elixir. The New York City native became an early advocate for the hallucinogenic plant mixture ayahuasca. For centuries, Amazonian Indians have been drinking ayahuasca, also known as yaje - a combination of the ayahuasca vine, tree bark and other plants - to achieve a trancelike state that they believe cleanses body and mind and enables communication with spirits. Weiskopf, who has published a 688-page tome about ayahuasca, was once...