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...committee for House races. Theirs has been a shifting line of attack. January's mantra about the G.O.P.'s "culture of corruption" became February's lament about the "rubber-stamp Congress." The latest slogan they are hurling against the Republicans is "dangerously incompetent." (That, however, can be a tricky visual, as Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow discovered when she stood next to a placard with those two words and gave a speech two weeks ago on the Senate floor...
...give prospective athletic recruits any information in folders with pockets. The Bob Slate staple is deemed to have “tangible value,” and is therefore verboten, according to Fry. He adds that any e-mails coaches send to students may not include animation, audio, or visual clips, though color attachments are allowed. Sound strange? Fry agrees. “Chances are, you can turn to any page in the [NCAA] manual and find something that doesn’t entirely make sense to you,” he wrote in an e-mail. While we flabby...
...positive side, Gen M students tend to be extraordinarily good at finding and manipulating information. And presumably because modern childhood tilts toward visual rather than print media, they are especially skilled at analyzing visual data and images, observes Claudia Koonz, professor of history at Duke University. A growing number of college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention. It's a powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow...
...they taught in the past. "They demand clarity," says Koonz. They want identifiable good guys and bad guys, which she finds problematic in teaching complex topics like Hutu-Tutsi history in Rwanda. She also thinks there are political implications: "Their belief in the simple answer, put together in a visual way, is, I think, dangerous." Koonz thinks this aversion to complexity is directly related to multitasking: "It's as if they have too many windows open on their hard drive. In order to have a taste for sifting through different layers of truth, you have to stay with a topic...
Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Stephen Prina introduced the artists with a presentation that included philosophy references and an impromptu piano performance...