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...office, and Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who also chairs the Gen Ed committee, will serve as its faculty director. The Gen Ed office will absorb its predecessor, the Core office, according to College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds. Gen Ed committee member and Slavic Professor Julie Buckler said that Harris told the committee at a recent meeting that the new office will be in the Holyoke Center and that the administration is hoping to have offices available for teaching fellows. Harris, Kenen, Hammonds, and Core Program Director Susan W. Lewis declined to comment further. In the meantime...
Besides the expert copy-editing at the Chicago Maroon, things aren't looking too good at UChicago. Each of the three divisions have taken a 25% budget cut, which has hit the smaller humanities departments especially hard, since the sciences already enjoy substantial outside funding. Their Slavic department is dying, with at most one graduate student matriculating next year. Ultimately the choice for the humanities division came down to hiring new faculty or accepting more graduate students--and they decided to focus on the former, reducing the size of their incoming graduate school class...
...Natalia A. Reed, a preceptor in the Slavic languages and literatures department who was a Harvard graduate student in the 1980s, says that Leavitt and Peirce has retained its character...
...course, the press loves to eat its own. But the rumor has been given credence by Vogue's recent issues, which are skinnier than a Slavic model. The January issue has 44% fewer ad pages than the same month last year, according to Media Industry Newsletter. Wintour's detractors have always conceded that she has a firm grasp of the advertising end of the pole - if this is slipping, they ask, could she be in the endgame...
...When Slavic ambassadors visited Constantinople (formerly Byzantium) in the 10th century, they were so awed by the city that they later wrote that they "knew not whether we were in Heaven or Earth." During their stay, these visitors would have seen mechanical golden songbirds on the boughs of jeweled trees and a hydraulic throne that lifted the Emperor 30 ft. above his subjects. Today, the relics of the Byzantine Empire - which for more than 1,000 years stretched from its capital (now called Istanbul) into the eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East and beyond - continue to dazzle. Running through March...