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...high school, he "played with the dance band for money and with jazz groups for fun." Ohio State University came next, after Stoltzman was rejected by Eastman School of Music and Juilliard. At Ohio he majored in math and music, and even considered a career in dentistry. "I still thought that classical music was somebody sitting in a symphony and playing things that you didn't understand," says Stoltzman. But after some lessons with Clarinetist Robert Marcellus of the Cleveland Orchestra, he decided on graduate work in music at Yale...
...large. LMU paid $11 a ton for its initial order of 650 tons of corn, and got an average heat output of 14 million BTUS per ton. Coal, by comparison, costs on the average $24 a ton and gives off no more than 23 million BTUs. The math works out to a 23% saving when corn is used...
Ukrainian Studies students receive tuition scholarships. Ten Most Popular Summer School Courses Chemistry S-20 190 Expository Writing 190 English as a Foreign Language 149 Chemistry S-1 133 Ukrainian History 117 Introduction to Psych. & Soc. Rel. 98 Cell Biology 94 Gov. S-50 83 Introduction to Calculus 76 Math...
...teacher at all-black Marshall High School started an interschool academic Olympics on a small basis a year ago. This spring, 20,000 students from eight high schools competed. In Detroit, ten students at Pelham Junior High, once considered a problem school, went to Louisville to win a national math olympiad. Among the reasons for their victory: individualized student instruction and parental supervision...
...Jolly, a spokesman for ETS, claims ETS designed the recent exams to be more difficult than the past LSATs in order to "give more opportunity to the students with higher ability." But Brill says the changes ETS instituted make the test harder only for some applicants. "ETS added more math, figuring that would make the test harder, which it did," Brill says. "But the people like me--people who are strong in math and who do well on standardized tests to begin with--they only do better." If Brill is correct, it appears that the change in the LSATs does...