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...only way [a J-Term] will work is if there’s a lot of attention and financial and faculty resources devoted to it” Chopra said. “It also shouldn’t come at the expense of normal term-time courses...
...It’s supposed to be where you pursue something you like,” he said of the January term. “I think it’s a pretty cool time just to unwind from the rigors of your normal semester...
...Silicon Valley calling--it's Tinseltown. Civilian Capital is selling shares of a movie, set to star Ethan Hawke, that starts filming next spring. Financing films through public partnerships is nothing new, but with Billy Dead (the movie's working title) Inc., the ante is much lower than normal. Shares are pegged at $8.75, with a 100-share minimum. The IPO, which is set to end Feb. 10, aims to raise $7.9 million. In theory, investors will be able to trade shares over the counter, but the market is untested, to say the least. If the film is a smash...
While many may view the phenomenon of instant messaging as a positive development—after all, it allows people across large geographic areas to stay connected—no one can deny its harmful impact on normal, day-to-day human interactions. Why go out and meet people who go to your school when you can hang out in your dorm room and watch DVDs while chatting to people you’re already friends with...
Recently, Dowling obtained a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant to study place-conditioning in zebrafish with relation to addiction to cocaine. The experiment starts with placing the zebrafish for a day in a normal tank, followed by a day in a tank with a cocaine-soaked piece of filter paper dangling at one end—a “zebrafish crackhouse,” the scientist quips. The third day, Dowling found that most fish would nearly immediately return to the end of the tank which previously housed the cocaine-soaked paper...