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Only a minority of institutions practice pure oralism anymore; but a babel of challenges to ASL remain. Mainstreaming, the widespread and generally salutary policy of removing students with disabilities from special schools and seeding them through regular classes, may be counterproductive for the deaf. They cannot be expected simply to "pick up" English from their new classmates; and yet removing them from an all-deaf environment may prevent them from picking up ASL. Northeastern's Lane talks grimly of their "drowning in the mainstream." Total communication, which asked teachers to sign ASL and speak English simultaneously, although once popular, seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Sound Barrier | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...weekly quizzes in section; the other has daily plot summaries in lecture. One is conducted partly as interactive discussion; the other is pure lecture in the cavern of Sanders Theatre. One is among the most challenging of classes. The other...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: A Tale of Two Shakespeares | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

...idea of a Humanities Quad was pure 1960s. It was about getting together, loving, sharing and maybe, just maybe, smoking a little grass. It was together, not apart. It was Woodstock I, not Whitewater. It was the 1969 World Series, not the baseball strike. It was the Peace Corps, not a recruiting meeting for Goldman Sachs. It was John and Yoko, not Woody and Soon...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Humanities Quadded | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

...Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics Paul C. Martin, the dean of the applied sciences division, expressed disappointment with the decision...

Author: By Deborah Yeh, | Title: Sciences Will Suffer As Feds Cut Funds | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

...Norwegian government is putting on a brave face over what must be pure disgust. The Acting Consul General in New York told the Times that. "It was the right idea and we tried it. It didn't have the chance to build a stable group of people who would use it and protect it. But we sent the right message: Sports is not only for the entertainment of rich adults. Sports is for the development of society," Some development...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: The Torching of Norway Field | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

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