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...heavier emphasis is now placed on teaching students dance terminology and applying that knowledge to journal entries and creative projects. One example he cited was a Thanksgiving-season project in which students choreographed a turkey dance using terms such as “oppositional motion?? and “fluid motion.” “Kids are able to address dance at a more cerebral level,” said Johnston, which he said leads to a “more complex understanding for dance as an art form.” Marla Perez-Selles, principal...
...collaborate” with the Faculty to ensure effective governance of the University may still be on the March 14 docket.“Automatically any motions now go on the agenda” for the next meeting, said Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Daniel S. Fisher, the motion??s author. “I hope that after that [March 7 meeting] the motion will be moot.”The March 7 meeting will not follow the strict format of official Faculty meetings and will be limited to discussion, with no votes taking place...
...editors: I appreciated reading your article about no-confidence votes in Friday’s Crimson (“Parliamentary Roots of Confidence Vote Highlight Motion??s Strategic Uses,” news, Feb 10). However, my knowledge about the function of no-confidence votes differs from your exposition. You seem to be knowledgeable only about the British system. In most other countries, a no-confidence vote leaves plenty of alternatives besides dissolution of Parliament and a new election. Actually, such a radical conclusion does only make sense in Britain, which is a rare example of a country...
...crusade that Matory has undertaken against Summers has drawn mixed feelings from the faculty. While many praise him for voicing criticism openly and publicly—and hundreds voted for his no-confidence motion??some faculty feel that Matory walks a fine line between constructive and destructive criticism...
...leadership of Lawrence H. Summers,” is loaded with acquiescent response bias—the tendency of people to automatically agree with any statement presented to them, regardless of its content. How different would the results be if a Summers supporter had called the confidence motion??rather than Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory, a self-acknowledged opponent of Summers’ leadership—and asked the Faculty if they had confidence? The results would certainly be different, but at this point it’s impossible...