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...period at an inner-city all-boys school is an event associated with the sounds of chaos, not classical music. And yet there are definitely strains of Beethoven coming from the piano in the cafeteria at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. Behind the pianist, another student waits patiently for his turn. Upstairs in the art room, a senior is using the lunch hour to apply more brushstrokes to a portrait. A few kids are playing pickup ball in the gym, but more are crowded in the library...
...illiterate and only 25% of high school freshmen make it to graduation, U of D is the chute through which bright young men can get to college. The school boasts a near perfect graduation rate and sends 99% of its graduates on to higher education. (In 2009 the one student who didn't go to college turned down a scholarship from the University of Michigan to sign a seven-figure contract with the Detroit Tigers.) (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...
MONDAY Asian American Female Sexuality Ticknor Lounge, 5 p.m. A dinner discussion with Lena Chen ’10 (don’t tell us you don’t know who she is), Christine Yu (an MIT student who talks about sex in her blog “Nerdy and Flirty”), and Vivien Wu ’08 (who, as far as we can tell, does not talk about sex in any blog...
...year-old horticulture graduate student at Cornell died unexpectedly...
...previous interviews, Zinta has not explained her interest in coursework, and a spokesman at the Business School declined to comment further on her status as a student, citing privacy concerns...