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...Today at noon, hundreds of students will pour into the lecture hall at Two Divinity Avenue for Foreign Cultures 56, "Jewish Life on Eastern Europe." Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris estimates over half of the students taking the course are Jewish, prompting the course's nickname, "Jews for Jews...
This may seem like a ludicrous question; how can there be a national title unless every team is allowed to compete against each other? A ridiculous question today, yes, but 30 years ago, this same kind of problem had very real implications for segregated school systems throughout the South. Separate schools meant separate athletics, and in the 1960's New Orleans had two different basketball champions every year. TNT's new television movie Passing Glory, which debuted last Sunday, chronicles two Josephite priests' struggle against inequality and their efforts to integrate high school basketball in New Orleans...
...reason to be frustrated, but progress did not always require violent events. The St. Augustine-Jesuit game paved the way for officially integrated competition in 1967. Because of Verrett and Grant, New Orleans finally got a real city championship. St. Augustine's success should hearten people who face inequality today by reminding them how much progress has been made since...
While the University did not officially cancelclasses, some course heads decided to cancel orreschedule their meeting times. Andrea Walsh, apreceptor for Expository Writing 20, "AnalyzingMass Media," e-mailed students to notify them thatshe had to re-schedule her class and conferencesfor yesterday and today...
While few would venture to call the UnitedStates a "woman's world" today, Madonna hasapparently taken the idea of a "geisha asentertainer" to heart and was so inspired that thevideo of her new single "Nothing Really Matters"is based on the au currant geisha-look, asis Gaultier's last collection. The infatuationhardly stops there, as, according to theBazaar article, Madonna and her assistantstalk about Golden's characters as if they're realpeople, with Madonna identifying with the evilHatsumomo. Rumor also has it that Madonna wouldlike a role in Spielberg's up coming movie, and atthe Public Library talk Golden confirmed...