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...current nascent state," declares art historian Paul Tucker, squinting wishfully against the sun. The University of Massachusetts professor is shadowed by an I-beam mass of welded steel that looms 55' tall above a campus soccer field. The construction, a piece by sculptor Mark diSuvero, is entitled "Huru," a word that means both hello and good-bye in an aboriginal Australian language. Appropriately situated to greet incomers from University Drive, "Huru" was the first piece of artwork in Arts on the Point, the public sculpture park at UMass Boston and a gargantuan contemporary art project that arguably borders a renaissance...
...immediate student community, however, does not seem as receptive to the project's aims. Dean Hatzis, a junior at UMass, looks toward the soccer field where "Huru" towers and says, "I hadn't really noticed it until you pointed it out. I think it's really ugly-at least they could paint it or something." Other passersby share these sentiments and express their puzzlement. "I don't know what it's a symbol of. It's all right looking. I haven't really noticed anything else," comments student Roberto Landivar. Christine Aller, a passing art major, comments that "Huru...
...parked in the Soldier's Field lot in the Business School freshman and sophomore year, and that was $650 per year and very inconvenient," Lewis says...
Yesterday, the Harvard swimmers flew down to the Longhorn State to compete at the 2000 Texas Invitational, which boasts perhaps most powerful field of collegiate swimming teams that will assemble before the postseason...
...performed by graduate students serves as an integral part of their education, and therefore exempts them from full worker-status, including the right to unionize. But these arguments fail to take into account the large amounts of menial work graduate students perform, often in departments completely unrelated to their field. Shouldering clerical duties for a professor does not enhance the edification of graduate students--if anything, the work detracts from their studies. These extra tasks should bestow graduate students the right to collective bargaining...