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...came in here as a pitcher and a positional player,” Walsh added. “But because of all the injuries in the infield, he hasn’t had a chance to perform much...
Last week, the New York Times argued that the scholar-athlete, who could perform as well in the classroom as on the field, is a relic of the past—and one to be sorely missed. Athletes, unlike fine musicians or writers, simply cannot “add to the intellectual and cultural stew that makes college campuses exciting.” (To be honest, I doubt I was accepted for this particular reason, either.) Pointing to data collected by James Shulman and William Bowen, the Times dismissed any contributions athletes might make at a school: they self-segregate...
...real passions, which are just as much a part of their education. As such, many have already forgotten whatever material was learned just last semester. What sticks are our experiences with other people—in organizations, on teams, in friendships and in relationships. That, and not how we perform in sophomore tutorial, is what we will remember when we graduate. Our extra-curriculars are so much of a better account of our selves than our classes are that, stepping back, it seems odd that anyone would attempt to define so much of our character by sheer academic performance. What...
...disease; in Plainfield, N.J. A talented classical and jazz pianist, Moore was best known for his roles in the 1979 movie 10 (which he nabbed after meeting director Blake Edwards in a therapy group) and the 1981 film Arthur, in which he played a sweet, wealthy drunk. Spurred to perform by a sense of inferiority stemming in part from a clubfoot, the working-class Moore said, "If I'd been able to hit someone in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic...
...private salons showing silent films held in private collections. The groups were organized by Shunsui Matsuda, a benshi who died in 1987. The clubs re-created the original conditions of silent screenings. Last fall, the Pordenone festival invited Midori Sawato, the last in the line of professional benshi, to perform. She transformed herself from a petite mild-mannered woman to a wild narrator on stage, exploding into a shower of tones, sounds and voices...