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...gone to this meet and haven’t performed well,” Rathgeber said. “To come back and finish 11th is a really big personal accomplishment. It gives me motivation to get back there next year and get on the podium.” On Friday, Rathgeber grabbed 20th place in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 3:50.38. He capped off the grueling weekend with a 23rd-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke. Rathgeber swam the morning preliminaries in 1:44.42, which left him just short...
...urged changes in many of the areas he focused on while president, such as socioeconomic diversity, faculty-student interaction and education in the life sciences, and also suggested that institutions commit more to “active learning.” His warning against the “large podium, small chair” mode of teaching, which he deemed “about the worst way to convey information so that it will be remembered and acted on,” struck a chord with some Tufts students in attendance. “I think that the active learning...
Parkin, who is comping the Crimson News Board, was the only woman on the podium...
Hollywood is aggressively secular and materialistic, and it does stereotype Christians (and Muslims, single women, gay men, fat kids and, for that matter, Hollywood celebrities). But it also needs Christianity, maybe more than Christianity needs it. No one thanks Carl Sagan at an Oscar podium. The rich imagery and mystery of Catholicism made The Da Vinci Code (and its burgeoning knockoffs) possible. And while Christmas movies and TV shows may not involve many mangers, they quietly--and profitably--ratify Christianity as the default U.S. religion, as any Jew or Hindu can attest in December...
...time painter Mary Heilmann finished taking questions from her audience at the Carpenter Center on Feb. 22, students felt comfortable enough to approach the podium and discuss a wide array of topics, all the way to the songs she had selected for her presentation. Heilmann—standing beneath projections of paintings inspired by California’s beaches, “The Simpsons,” and an album cover by The Drifters—did her part to demystify the world of postmodern art for those who asked. Speaking about her personal experiences during the psychedelic 1970?...