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...College would only publish a list of departmental courses that satisfy the existing Core areas--as it currently does for Science A and B--students would have the choice and rigor that they deserve. This would be the first step on the way to a system of distributional requirements. The second step would be the deletion of all courses that could not be funnelled back into their departments of origin, in order to insure a substantive curriculum within distributional areas...
...CPRC has a remarkable opportunity to positively affect the lives of thousands of students to come. Switching to distributional requirements would ensure completeness for the curricular diversity of which the College often boasts. It didn't take us very long to come to this conclusion; with such an impressive list of scholars assembled for the CPRC, it should take them even less time...
...Hope to the long list of celebrities who are being sued by ex-employees. Jeffrey Branum, who was Hope's butler for two weeks last year (not long enough, apparently, to pen a lucrative tell-all), has filed a wrongful-termination suit. Branum claims the comedian fired him because Branum refused to shave his beard off. "The Hopes have no comment," says their allegedly bearded spokesman...
What gets a movie the dread NC-17 rating these days? Normally the reasons children are forbidden to see films are explicit sex and spectacular spasms of violence. In the case of Showgirls, though, the list of no-nos might read, "Obscene level of incompetence, excessive inanity in the story line, gross negligence of the viewer's intelligence, a prurient interest in the quick buck...
...show's major innovation, however, isn't its format or guest list, but a moody visual style that gives a viewer the feeling of walking into a bewildering installation at the Whitney Museum's Biennial. Created and directed by the photographer Luca Babini (Hutton's boyfriend), the talk show looks like no other. It is filmed, not taped, and the camera sways back and forth, not only between Hutton and her guest, seated across from each other at a table dressed with a fruit bowl, but also to TV-screen images of them looking alternately fascinated and confused...