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...professors agree. The thought of prepping for a lecture like a Broadway show horrifies Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Wei-Ming, who teaches Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community." Wei-Ming says his opposing outlook on the practice of speaking to a large crowd comes from his Chinese upbringing. "In America, a lecture or speech often begins with a joke," he says. "In Asia, normally, if there is a big audience, you begin with an apology. Self-praise is in poor form...
...Contemplative and soft-spoken, Wei-Ming questions the idea of performing for his students, even when lecturing in the grandeur of Sanders Theatre. Education should come before show...
...your Crimson? A lot of your fellow students don't, at least not regularly. Circulation complaints are traditionally among the most common gripes about The Crimson. This semester, the situation appears to be especially bad. Instead of the occasional lapse in delivery, some readers like Tin Ming L. Hsu, a junior in Lowell House, find that it is the rare exception when they actually get their paper...
...heavy rainfall and subsequent plane delays, the play "Exit the Dragon," produced by Ming-Na Wen and Eric Michael Zee, which was originally scheduled for Friday night, had to be canceled, and the keynote address of the conference had to be moved to Saturday morning...
Students in the course will watch films by directors Derek Jarman, Angelina Macarone and Tsai Ming-Iiang, among others. They will also read essays by theorists such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler...