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...growing specialization of professional academics naturally shaped the education of non-professionals. Professors who win tenure for books on 13th century lead mining are not likely to encourage their students to take interdisciplinary approaches to learning. The idea of a senior thesis is clearly derived from graduate school practice, and departments often require undergraduate theses to be as specialized as graduate ones. No one can be sure that this kind of mimicry is useful in undergraduate education, but it is also hard to see how undergraduate education can be insulated from the rest of the academic world...
Last Friday the 13th, when members of the admissions board sent out the memorandum informing the 200 applicants of the error, they put Thursday's date on the letters for superstitious and traditional reasons. Apparently, it was too late...
Politically, more and more gays are coming out of the closet. In Chicago, for example, Gary Nepon, an avowed homosexual, has announced that he will be a candidate in the race for state representative from the 13th District, and last week Les Trotter told the monthly meeting of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition that he would be running for the Cook County board of commissioners. They are the first openly homosexual candidates to run for office in Chicago's history...
...neither a Ph.D. nor a coterie of doting graduate students. What Kowal, 37, does have is a discerning eye and an insatiable appetite for scanning the sky. During the past decade, he has discovered one comet and five more that had somehow been "lost" as well as the 13th-and what may prove to be the 14th-moon of Jupiter, and 80 supernovas, or exploding stars. Last week Kowal announced an even more remarkable sighting: a small, faint object orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus. It could be the solar system's tenth planet...
...Head of the Charles will once again bring all the beauty and power of crew to Cambridge this Sunday, as the Regatta enters its 13th year. And as the history of the event grows, so does the traffic...