Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the age of four, Chicagoan Klieman had her sights on the theater. After her dreams of stardom fizzled in New York City, she remembered a professor at Northwestern University who had urged her to try law. When she said that girls did not become lawyers, he replied, "Girls don't, but women do." Klieman looked in on Manhattan's criminal courts and found that "the law is in many ways a lot of theater." After graduation from Boston University Law School and a clerkship with a federal judge, she went to work as a Massachusetts prosecutor...
...taking steps to cut the work load and make classes more interesting. At Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the amount of time that students spend in the classroom has been reduced by 15%, and more outside exercises and research projects have been introduced instead. At Northwestern, faculty members have been experimenting with more imaginative teaching techniques. Professor James Garvin, for instance, now spikes his biochemistry lectures with a "case of the week," such as scurvy or nerve-gas poisoning, to make the subject seem less dry and abstract...
...alumnus of Northwestern University who has been trying to get his alma mater to host a debate on the reality of the Holocaust struck out again this month...
After a rejection in April from the Northwestern history club, alumnus William Curry offered The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper, $3500 to host the debate. The newspaper refused...
...most ardent of sports fans, but when my roommate's lacrosse learn defeated Northwestern to vie for the NCAA semi-finals at Amberst. I was anxious to read the write-up Quickly thumbing through the sports section of-Thursday's Crimson. I was surprised to find that instead of top-of-the-page glory, the laxwomen were relegated to a small, inconspicuous column beneath a great picture of men's lacrosse. Tim Pendergast and a lengthy tale of co-captain comments. "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia" would rather be given due respect and placement. Too often women's sports...