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...surreal second. Perhaps, the one piece of decoration that falls flat is the series of framed silhouettes of horses surrounding a door. While horses are certainly a motif in the play, their role in the play’s message is not prominent enough to merit such a central placement of the prop in the set. As a result, the decoration’s presence tends to confuse audiences mulling the play’s symbolism rather than add to the action...
...comment, and a firestorm later, we found ourselves caught in a dispute that we didn’t even know existed. Loaded phrases in the news article’s headline and glance boxes and the article’s instances of misquoting and misrepresentation, as well as its placement on the front page, implied antagonism and aggressive tactics that simply did not occur. We are especially angered that The Crimson’s sensationalism has cast aspersions on a performance as important to this campus as Cultural Rhythms...
...which current University policies hinder female students from concentrating in the sciences.” In fact, the purpose was to imagine new policies that might make the science departments more accessible to everyone, with an only occasional focus on women. Ideas suggested, such as holding review sessions before placement examinations, offering peer advising within large introductory science classes, making study abroad more accessible to science concentrators, and providing summer housing for students conducting research, would clearly benefit all students and might serve to retain more women in the sciences...
...dean of education, Deborah Stipek, and others indicates that by age 12 children have formed hard and fast beliefs about the subjects at which they excel and those in which they fail. Perhaps that's why last year only half as many girls as boys chose to take advanced-placement tests in physics. To even out those numbers, former astronaut Sally Ride launched a science camp two summers ago that so far has kindled the interests of nearly 800 middle school girls...
WISHR’s other concerns are similarly flawed. The Crimson reported Wednesday that, “Li and Nowski said that the potentially stressful experience of placement exams can turn women off from the heavy competition in the sciences.” There are two possible conclusions: either women are somehow less able to cope with the stress of placement exams than men, or placement exams are generally stressful, in point of fact, for all students. I tend to believe the latter explanation: the tests are scary, period. Their difficulty and the stress that surrounds them cannot be used...