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...discovery of Tiktaalik a pivotal moment that profoundly shifts the balance in the tension between those who accept evolution and those who question it? Probably not. Those who regard creationism as dogma will probably remain unmoved by any manner of scientific evidence. For those who are uncertain, however, the fishapod may be a source of enlightenment, a demonstration that we can recover ancient clues to events clearly predicted by the theory of evolution...
...remain very rare. To foster a sense that all students and faculty are closely tied to the presidential search process, the University must also select a diverse group of students and faculty members to populate the committees, and it must make its selections in a transparent and well-publicized manner. Including only older, more established professors and Undergraduate Council members will do little to capture the faith of the entire faculty or student body. Should the University wish to enable a small group to secretively select another president in whom all segments of the campus population do not have confidence...
...staid world of poetry, where words can be weapons, two of its biggest guns appear to have engaged in battle. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has challenged Alice Quinn, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue...
Though McGrath Lewis said that working the system in this manner “is not the thing to worry about, security-wise,” she added after hearing of the Columbia applicants’ cleverness, “I am shaking my head, I’ll admit...
Italian officials in particular have questioned whether some items in White’s collection were attained in an illegitimate manner, according to King...