Word: urbana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study in academia, several surveys have shown that Citizen Kane is by far the most thoroughly explicated film. So there is a place in the classroom for The Making of Citizen Kane. Robert L. Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hardly mentions the actors in Citizen Kane, much less what the film means or represents, but he is exhaustive in his analyses of the art direction, the photography, the special effects, the sound track...
...1960s protests against campus military research. This time, however, the dissension is led not by radical leftist undergraduates but by professors and graduate students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah to Princeton. At the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, 53 of the 70 full professors in the physics department, which is the second largest in the U.S., have pledged not to seek SDI funds and signed a statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half the engineering and physics faculty members at Cornell have...
...state had 45,000 teen alcoholics. One of every five freshmen at the University of Minnesota admits to being a heavy drinker, which is twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sketched a portrait of young people heavily dependent on booze to handle stress. More than half said they drink when angry or upset, three-quarters said they drink to get drunk, and 42% admitted they have trouble putting down the bottle once they start. Almost 30% had at least...
Randall A. Borow Urbana...
...American audience has grown steadily since 1978 to 9.5 million viewers today. The series appears on 112 U.S. commercial and public stations and has an enthusiastic college following. At least 10,000 students watch each episode shown on the TV station of the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana...