Word: matters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner, whose Science A-35, "Matter in the Universe" course's enrollment will be limited to 325 students this semester, also notes that the lack of intimacy transforms a lecture into a performance. "When the class is 70-plus, it changes. You don't know anyone. It has a larger element of theater," he says...
...year, in Kirscher's "Matter in the Universe," his own daughter-while taking the class-pulled a prank of similar nature. "She stood up in class and said she was pregnant," the embarrassed father remembers...
...possible to schedule leaves in order that they not affect particular parts of our course offerings disproportionately; but as a matter of practicality this is not always easy," says David Blackbourn, acting chair of the History department...
...hamsters in question were residents of Lotze's Web site, who cavorted to the tune of a song from Disney's "Robin Hood." In a matter of days, these rodents won Lotze fan mail, job offers and fifteen minutes of Internet celebrity...
...truth of the matter is that Advanced Standing is educationally unsound, and should not continue to exist in its current form, if at all. Most students realize this, which is why the vast majority of first-years who will accept Advanced Standing tomorrow will eventually rescind it. This is not to say that there are not students mature enough or focused enough to complete their undergraduate requirements in three years. But successful A.P. scores are arbitrary, unequal and poor indicators of either focus or maturity. More importantly, a complete college experience takes a full four years...