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...industry's glamourati will assemble in all their post-writers'-strike glory at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles for the 80th awards bash of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hundreds of millions of people around the world will tune in as prizes are doled out to films most of the TV viewers haven't seen. They watch in part because the laying on of statuettes is meant to signify the designation of supreme cinematic quality. The Best Picture winner will be able to claim parity with such enduring masterworks as The Greatest Show on Earth, Around...
English professor Stephen Greenblatt, the editor of what he described as a journal with “a decent reputation and a quite anemic subscription base,” advocated for the motion because he doubted it would accelerate the death of his journal, and because he said he was worried about the currently high cost of many monographs...
Also passing by unanimous vote at yesterday’s meeting was a motion to create a Ph.D. program in Film and Visual Studies. The program will consolidate course offerings from a variety of departments, including Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Anthropology...
...judging whether [the Q Evaluation] is a good thing; we are not judging whether people would prefer to use something else,” Kelly said, presenting the motion at yesterday’s meeting, “We are simply trying to make things as fair as possible. Given that graduate students are required to be evaluated when they serve as teaching fellows, it seems not reasonable for us not to evaluate ourselves...
...case was one of the perceived violations of academic freedom that prompted anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 to sponsor a Faculty of Arts and Sciences motion late last year asking the faculty to reaffirm their commitment to free speech...