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...author but waves the idea away, viewing his alma mater as a logical step towards such writing; it was children’s literature, after all, that awoke his love of learning.“In the beginning there were stories,” says Germanic Languages Professor Maria Tatar, chair of the Folklore and Mythology committee and one of Kimel’s mentors. “There wasn’t a generational divide.” Tatar’s popular course Literature and Arts A-17: “Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature?...
...most recent syllabus with whatever revision the faculty member suggests,” said Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris. “For newer courses we don’t demand a full syllabus but a narrative.” For Folklore and Mythology Professor Maria Tatar, the review process for Literature and Arts A-17: “Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature” was surprisingly short. “In terms of content, I was quite surprised that were really no changes or tinkering made to my syllabus...
...studies. This means that reducing overall spending requires slashing chunks of already small departmental operational costs. “The 15 percent is actually a much larger figure for some programs because budgets often include staff salaries, which can’t be cut,” said Maria Tatar, who chairs the folklore and mythology committee. “The real percentage could be closer to upwards of 30 percent.” Department chairs have said that they view cutting salaries as the least desirable option on the table, since staff salaries are already...
...Under the direction of the FBI, the informant befriended Mohamed Shnewer and his friends, Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka and Serdar Tatar. For 16 months, he recorded conversations with the men, some of which included vague allusions to jihad and an ill-formed plan to attack the Fort Dix military base. The men watched jihadist videos and took trips to a shooting range. Omar drove one of the defendants to do surveillance of possible targets, and he offered to buy illegal weapons for the group. No attack was carried out, but the defendants were arrested in May 2007 after...
...departments across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is seen as a benefit rather than a cost.“It has many windows. It’s a discipline in of itself but it also stands at the crossroads of many other disciplines,” said Maria Tatar, a professor of Germanic languages and literature and the current Folk and Myth chair. Mitchell agreed, using a less traditional analogy.“Folklore is sometimes referred to as the bastard child that English begot on anthropology,” Mitchell said. “I wear...