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Jones said he would like the selected professor to be someone who "can bring the whole family of this music together"-- a generalist who appreciates all forms of black music and understands their common bond...
According to Gates, Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin agreed four years ago to sponsor a visiting professor in Afro-American studies. At last June's commencement, Levin notified Gates that he wanted to make the funding permanent as an endowed professorship...
...Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin '68--no relation to Gerald Levin--said he thought the endowment was important from a musical point of view as well...
...while Saylor's idealistic vision of a virtual university for all is laudable, it will never be the Internet Ivy experience for which he hopes. The merits of distance education can best be summed up by Georgetown English Professor Carole Fungaroli's comment, "It's the same as sex on the Internet. You can get it online, but it's not as good as in person...
...middle-aged and marginally successful author, Ted Swenson can summon up only limp enthusiasm for the creative-writing course he teaches at a second-rate college in remote Vermont. Suffering through classes with unimaginative students and dinners with pedantic colleagues, the disgruntled professor of Francine Prose's abrasively comic new novel, Blue Angel (Harper Collins; 314 pages; $25), can't wait to rush home so he can avoid writing his overdue third novel. In addition to battling ennui, Swenson must also contend with a forbidding campus environment fraught with race and gender minefields...