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Annemarie Schimmel, professor of Indo-Muslim Culture, visited Pakistan last month to receive its highest honor for civilians in recognition of her pioneering work with Islamic literature...
Such involvement with visiting scholars inevitably benefits not only Sheppe, but the scholars themselves and the House as a whole. "It's really wonderful," Lowell House Secretary Sheila Schimmel comments. "I mean, here are these visiting scholars, not very familiar with the language, intimidated by their surroundings. Normally no one makes the effort to bring them into the flow of House activities. But Jim actively seeks them out, tries to learn about their cultures, picks up bits of their languages. It's terrific. He brings them into the mainstream by making them play with him and with his friends...
...Sheila Schimmel, Lowell House secretary, said she considered whether or not students would "fit into Lowell House" in judging applications...
...Sheila Schimmel, secretary of Lowell House, said yesterday that as many as possible of Lowell's 47 singles will be eliminated next year to ease the House's overcrowding...
...Schimmel said the decision to cut back on singles was partly influenced by recent studies demonstrating the overcrowding problem in undergraduate houses. She added that most Lowell residents were willing to forego senior singles to lessen overcrowding during their sophomore and junior years...