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They remained collaborators in name but essentially stopped talking. To find out what she was doing, Wilkins had to go to a seminar Franklin gave in November 1951. He invited Watson to come along. (Crick, whose interest in DNA was well known, thought it might cause too much of a flap if he showed up.) Wilkins had warned Watson that Franklin was difficult; for his part, Watson had a generally piggish attitude toward women at the time. He liked "popsies"--young, pretty things without brains--but strong, independent women rather baffled him. In The Double Helix, he puts Franklin down...
...took the Inferno seminar, and fell in love, to the extent that I rearranged my schedule so I could take the other two,” Pearl says. “By the end I decided that this is what I want to do for my thesis...
...recently returned from a seminar in Israel that was designed to give college journalists a better understanding of the region, the culture and, of course, the ongoing conflict. I was struck by how much those in the region know about America and by how closely they follow the American media. But often students in this country who express their views in the college press are often unaware of their far-reaching impact on policy both at home and abroad. Unfortunately, this is a responsibility that few take seriously enough...
...speakers during the seminar, journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi, shared with us a few words of advice for young, aspiring journalists. “Don’t buy into conventional wisdom,” Halevi said. “Be above the left and the right, and try to understand what’s going on outside the ideological boxes...
That the University has whittled Core requirements down to seven (alas, three years too late) is a hopeful sign of increasing flexibility within the Core (i.e. there is now less of it). The success of the freshman seminar program is a sure sign that students and faculty alike thrive in the small classroom environment that nurtures creativity and fosters debate. Why not extend such a program to senior spring...