Word: lac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stanford has responded with a remedial program for the bright: the Learning Assistance Center (LAC), which offers courses in how to take classroom notes, use the library, prepare term papers, and budget study time efficiently. LAC, begun in 1972, now teaches more than 50% of Stanford's 1,500 freshmen; some of them, among the brightest in their class, enroll simply to improve their competitive edge. The center also is open to upperclassmen, graduate students and faculty members who want to learn more efficiently. Stanford considers the courses so valuable that it even gives credit for them...
Funny and Clownlike. By far the most crowded class at the center is LAC-10, a three-credit course in reading skills. It was set up when administrators learned that first-year Stanford students score in the 60-70 percentile range in nationwide tests of college freshmen reading skills. "At Stanford, that's low," explains LAC Director Michael McHargue. "People here don't know that anything below 90% exists." LAC-10 instructors teach students how to skim a chapter in a textbook for the important points and how to build up their vocabulary...
Bresson's Lancelot du Lac, with a D.W. Griffith short, Sunday...
Lancelot du Lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Two very different treatments of the Arthurian legend, although both are concerned with deromanticizing the Once and Future King. Monty Python is funnier. Bresson's film, savaged by the critics, has some good moments and some scenes of positively unearthly beauty...
...about the life they have left behind and apprehensive about what lies ahead in America. "We are getting bona fide refugees without anything or anybody," says INS Official Don Day at Pendleton. "I never know what will happen to me, only what has happened to me," mourned Hoan Lac, 39, a psychotherapist, who cried softly as she rocked her two-year-old child. "I have many friends in this country, but I have lost their addresses. I had to leave Viet Nam in 50 minutes." Pham An Thanh, 40, once a prosperous marketing manager for a paper and sugar distributing...