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...looking for—the chance to play with proven competition from around the country. This past weekend, the Crimson traveled to Las Vegas’ Paiute Resort Golf Club in Primm, Nevada for Golf Week’s Conference Challenge tournament, a three-day event taking place on the club’s Desert Course. The competition included a member university from conferences throughout the country, including University of California, Berkeley out of the Pacific 10 Conference and Ohio State University out of the Big Ten Conference. “We usually do not get the chance to play...
...only hiring four students this semester. “We’re very mindful of hiring and the budget this year,” he said. Other employers said students who had previously worked for that employer would be preferentially asked to return first before new hiring takes place. “My department is not hiring any new students,” said Rachel Howarth, the associate librarian at Houghton Library, which usually hires new students each semester. “We just have a fair amount returning this year.” Some employers added that they...
...mirrored in a metaphoric way by our geography. Americans rarely stay in the place they were born, with their nuclear families. That's unique in human history. We became nomadic geographically, as well as morally, religiously and ethically. And after all that happened, there was a second sort of seismic change, instituted by the technological revolution at the turn of the century. It's changed the pace and cadence of our days dramatically. We spend much more time with screens and electronic devices and mediated contacts than we do in face-to-face contact with other human beings...
...dolphins with an unflinching eye on the sometimes gruesome process. The documentarians, led by photographer turned director Louie Psihoyos and dolphin trainer turned activist Richard O'Barry, have stirred both international outcry and acclaim at film festivals from Sundance to Seattle with their footage of the slaughter that takes place every year in a remote cove in Taiji...
...tech machines to minimize the animals' suffering. The most common hunting methods, however, are oikomi, a process illustrated in the film in which fishermen chase dolphins into shallow water and surround them with a net, and tsukimbo, in which dolphins are killed individually by harpoon. Taiji is the only place in Japan to recently practice oikomi...