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...John McGahern, used to say that “there’s verse and there’s prose and then there’s poetry, and poetry can happen in either.” Since he was a novelist, he used to say that it happened more often in prose...
...with their studies, the Undergraduate Council’s recent vote to allocate funds for the creation of an online study guide library seems almost too good to be true. Student-generated study guides—succinct little packages of reading summaries, source analyses, or useful formulas—often allow students to quickly scan through the basics of a semester-long course without ever having to attend a lecture or crack open a book...
Those in charge of designing and overseeing the online study guide library must be careful as well. The public and official status of the project introduces a plethora of potentially sticky issues related to intellectual property. Students who create study guides often lose control over what happens to their work once it is shared with others and may not want it posted online. Some study guides that get circulated around campus were created several years ago, and their authors might have concerns about their ideas becoming public. Moreover, because study guides are not official academic documents, they may be cobbled...
While it costs only $200 to file a proposed initiative, the work of collecting enough signatures is another matter. Putting a measure on the ballot requires money, which places the most powerful interest groups in the driver's seat. Qualifying a measure in California often costs more than $1 million, with initiatives for a constitutional amendment requiring 8% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, or 694,354 signatures, and a proposed law requiring 5%, or 433,971. The signatures must be gathered in 150 days...
...Coaching choices are just as slim in Korea and Japan. In Korea, where short-track speedskating has traditionally earned more medals and respect from fans, figure skaters often have to share precious ice space with speedskaters, limiting their ability to build speed and work on expansive elements such as spirals and intricate footwork sequences. Things aren't much better in Japan, where crowded sessions forced Asada, as an up-and-coming talent in the early 2000s, to train for a few years in California before returning to a new rink built in Nagoya. (See a brief history of Olympic sore...