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Vanderbilt tries to make palling around with teachers the norm, believing that even casual exchanges with faculty can broaden kids' academic and social perspectives. As dean of the Commons, Frank Wcislo has films and forums in his living room, a.k.a. Wcislo's Salon. The 10 profs who live in the Commons' dorms host similar extracurriculars, and 55 others have agreed to come hang out with frosh. But amid all this bonding with authority figures, there's a risk that some students won't learn independence. "A very small percentage of students see me as a father figure...
...University of Maine is developing a program to help combat the sophomore slump by building on what first-years learned in Froshville. Vanderbilt has a $1.75 billion capital campaign to turn all the rest of its dorms into neighborhoods where some 5,000 upperclassmen and their professors can live and eat together. "Twenty years ago, there was no talk of retention. It was just about getting kids in the door," says Michael McLendon, who teaches public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt. "Now we want to make sure their education is social." Let the study breaks begin...
FAMILY GUY to do live reading at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall shudders...
...more than 20 years, working- and middle-class Americans have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, WASHINGTON, MICH...
...result that triggered outrage in Europe and, ultimately, sanctions from the E.U. In last month's elections, the far right had its best showing since World War II, with support from nearly 50% of Austrians under age 30--an outcome that ensures that Haider's divisive legacy will live...