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...foot outside their house. But how do the Houses address the physiological and psychological needs of the students? Since randomization, the Houses have lost much of their character, becoming large and impersonal. Moreover, once first-years move to the Houses, they are no longer visited by the many peer health-related groups on campus; older students are expected to be proactive, to know where to go for help...
...Health education is a difficult task, especially for a group with diverse concerns and interests. A number of peer-counseling and peer-education groups maintain networks of preventative and reactive resources for students. However, there are two needs on this campus that have not been met. There is the need for House community rebuilding in the post-randomization era, and an equal need to bring the available resources directly into the Houses...
...stony vase perfectly matches the natural majesty of the waterfall scene. In the Hendrik Goltzius’ “Susanna and the Elders,” one of this year’s newcomers to the museum, a very fleshy Susanna lounges between a pair of men who peer at her connivingly. In the interpretation by Marie Ellison of the Falmouth Garden Club, a low-slung arc of coral lilies seamlessly follows the line of Susanna’s body, while a flurry of cream chrysanthemums echoes her scanty drapery. On the right and left, dramatic waves of budding...
Ravi prasad studies the small machine in his hands. Friends peer over his shoulder, while several young children scramble for a good view. The 16-year-old has been told that he is holding a computer. He looks skeptical. His school in Madavara, a dusty farming village outside Bangalore, has a computer: a big one, with a keyboard, a wide screen and all kinds of wires. This has none of that. Instead, it's the size of a datebook and has earphones and some kind of blunt writing utensil. "Why is it so small?" he asks. "This is a computer...
...hill on her 300-acre ranch near Boerne, Texas. Limestone rocks fly as the ATV chews up the steep slope. Ahead of her, a pair of African gemsbok antelope are running. At the summit, she pauses to drink in the view--and the silence--while the gemsboks peer at her from behind a live oak. "It was their hill before, but now we all share," she says, pointing out the sable and red lechwe antelope hiding nearby...