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Some faculty members resent the focus on freshmen, accusing the administration of "hand holding." Joni Petschauer, director of freshman learning communities, pleads guilty: "Yes! That's exactly what we're doing. We're extending our hands to them for the first semester. I embrace that...
...star on "The Road" (the latter has been praised for its veracity by no less an expert than Dave Grohl, of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, who contributes drumming on the record.) He also manages to parody a swath of celebrated musicians by incorporating their stylistic trademarks into his songs: Joni Mitchell's upward swoop, the keening harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and, on an slow, instructional song whose title is too crude to reproduce here, the dulcet phrasings of James Taylor. The listener has not acquired an intimacy with the soul of Jack Black after several spins of "Tenacious...
...help them remember her visit. But it also helps that Kara casually encounters most of the younger kids every day in the hallways of their shared school building in tiny (pop. 535) Latimer, Iowa. "Our kids see the high schoolers as role models and mentors," says first-grade teacher Joni Jensen. "They watch every move they make...
...whiteness: love of Joni Mitchell. A fondness for the Midwest. A taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored. Tendency to be underdressed at any event. Disdain for black-eyed peas. The ability to dwell, for long spells, in a world not eclipsed by race. Skin, eyes, hair. My mother...
...JONI MITCHELL, BUT HOTTER...