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...rich, white, and mainstream” is that it seemed to me to be yet another way in which our supposedly meritocratic school helped perpetuate a rich, white, mainstream elite instead of developing a meritocratic one blind to previous privilege. After all, according to best estimates based on rampant facebooking, only six out of the 42 members of SAC are not white (and only 15 are women). And, based on admittedly unscientific observation alone, SAC is filled with polo shirts and blazers...
...simultaneous revolution in the country's photographic arts?and showcasing its most outstanding exponents is the exhibition "Between Past and Future" at the Seattle Art Museum until May 15. The exhibition explores the legacies of China's imperial and Maoist past, as well as the effects of rampant development on the country's culture and landscape. An astonishing diversity of work is on display, from Cui Xiuwen's video Ladies Room?which looks at the social dynamics of the new China from the perspective of a nightclub powder room?to Huang Yan's beguiling Chinese Landscape-Tattoo, pictured here...
...your homework done? That's O.K. Mom will take the fall. Late for class? Blame it on Dad. Parents have sued schools that expelled kids for cheating, on the grounds that teachers had left the exams out on a desk and made them too easy to steal. "Cheating is rampant," says Steve Taylor, a history teacher at Beverly Hills High School in California. "If you're not cheating, then you're not trying. A C means you're a loser." Every principal can tell a story about some ambitious student, Ivy bound, who cheats on an exam. Teacher flunks...
...butter of the art world. Which brings us to the major Dali retrospective that opens this week at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's another step forward in what you might call the late Dali rehab project. Five years ago a show organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role...
Hammonds holds a physics degree from MIT, and she taught there as the school wrestled with allegations of rampant gender bias among its faculty. She also served on the FAS Standing Committee on Women, which sent a letter to Summers last month blasting him for his comments...