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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...very precise way? Now is hardly the time to insist on a reactionary return to a pedagogy that permits only dry book learning. (If anything, the students themselves would not tolerate such a regression.) And as an industry builds around the quest to glue young people to their TV screen, the least we can do is turn a dubious development in a more unambiguously positive direction. The educational games and interactive novels described in the Times report pass the Hippocratic test of viability as teaching tools: They, evidently, do no harm. But almost as important as a teaching model that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Literacy First | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Dorothy’s red heels click incessantly on the screen. They close and open again and again but Dorothy doesn’t budge. But these heels are not going to bring anybody back to Oz—they’re stuck in a continuous loop. No, you’re not witnessing the result of a bad download; you’re watching “Lossless #1,” the first piece in the fall exhibition Lossless at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Lossless is a collection of five deconstructed and digitally...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lossless Blurs Lines Between Old, New | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...unexpectedly. But the highlight of each scene was the music: an amazing and hilariously malapropos soundtrack that sounded something like a Clapton-fronted Mariachi band.There is, however, more to the experience of watching “Les Demons” than simply what appears on the screen and rumbles through the speakers. Jesus Franco, the movie’s prolific director, has a reputation for being basically the Robert Pollard of cult filmmaking: he’s produced hundreds of passable films and a handful of great ones—or so I’m told. And though...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nunsploitation in the Brattle Grindhouse | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...breeder, FOP Tana Jambadorj ’11: Willy Wonka, French maid, cowboy Nicholas A. Noyer ’09: Peter Shields’ extra-small t-shirt from his Harvard Carnival performance, the finale costumes from “A Chorus Line,” standard Primal Screen attire Michelle M. Parilo ’10: Mickey Mouse, Santa Clause, a Crimson...oh, wait...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard’s Family Gets Put to the Test Before They Head to Hollywood for the Big Show | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...isn’t just where Dems gather to yell at the screen during debates, it also brings in six fellows every semester to lead study groups. While these fellows are nowhere near as funny as former IOP guest Stephen Colbert, they have managed to do some stuff of interest. See if you can match the fellows with their achievements...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Fellowship of the IOP | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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