Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the third semester of SCUE's preceptorial program, students will have the opportunity to flyfish and learn about ecology in Urban Studies Professor George Thomas' course "A Day on the Beach," discuss the occurrence of statistics in Literature Statistics Professor Ed Lusk's "Statistics and Literature: Say What?" and study the figure of the artist in modern literature in German Studies Professor Horst Daemmrich's "The Artist in Literature...
Decline and fall is a familiar urban arc. But out-of-towners whose lurid visions of Times Square have been formed by movies like Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver--or shocking discoveries made after taking a wrong turn on the way from the tour bus to Victor/Victoria--might be surprised by the extent to which the area is approaching the millennium in a clean and sober state. That is, if "sober" fairly applies to a cityscape that has become more enthusiastically garish than ever thanks to the capabilities of modern signage. Tourism is rising; crime is dropping, at an even faster...
They found that the nation's non-white population is concentrated in urban areas...
Yale Police Assistant Chief James Perrotti could not be reached to interpret statistics, but factors such as Yale's size, urban setting, and relatively open campus may contribute to higher crime rates...
Fashion designer TOMMY HILFIGER is the subject of a lot of traffic on the Internet, normally a good thing for companies that sell to urban young groovoids. But Hilfiger's getting the wrong kind of attention. E-mail groups run by African Americans and other minorities--core Hilfiger clientele--have been getting messages urging them not to buy Hilfiger clothes because of racist things he allegedly said on Oprah. The rumor spread so fast that Oprah's producers received dozens of calls wanting to know if it was true. The clothing company would not speculate whether the Web traffic...