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...blame will never change the simple truth: Harvard is not as fun as other colleges. But, thankfully, at least for one night of the year, Harvard has a secret weapon: Mather House’s foam party. The renowned Mather Lather is the cornerstone of springtime campus life, the sine qua non of fun at Harvard, the one night of the year where Harvardians can really party outside of a sweaty dorm room or final club...
...academic aura. But that's precisely the sin of Alabama and other schools: by morphing the college coach from Knute Rockne into Jack Welch, they're once and for all admitting that when it comes to building their self-esteem as institutions of higher learning, football is the sine qua non instead of the complement...
...learn about how various types of instruments produce different types of sound, what causes dissonance, and, for a final project, you’ll use Amadeus software to figure out how sound moves in an enclosed area. But beware: if you salivate over Satie but shy from sine waves, give this class a wide berth. A grasp of physics, good ’ol trigonometry, and a serious interest is music is mandatory if you want to get something more than a C out of the course. Your fellow classmates will likely be people actually into science, which will make...
...York-based label that puts out a lot of electroacoustic/minimalist/drone weirdness, including a bunch of long-out-of-print or unreleased records. Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of their stuff, especially a series of Tony Conrad compositions that he made in 1969 with a sine-wave oscillator called “Fantastic Glissando.” My roommate Josh thinks it sounds like a plane taking off. Table of the Elements has also released a 2-CD set of Tony Conrad’s 1972 collaboration with the Krautrock band Faust called...
...least one delegate, it must be reported, walked from his hotel to the U.N. "My people wouldn't like it if I rode around in a big motorcade," shrugged Frazer Sine of Vanuatu, a nation of 80 islands in the South Pacific. Sine even took the New York subway. "Interesting" was his diplomatic observation...