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...decision to tap Nathans culminates anextensive and secretive search spearheaded by12-person faculty and 12-person studentcommittees, and marks the first time students haveparticipated in a dean search...
...smeared across the walls. But there might be special TV consoles -- a few colleges have them now -- that could beam up taped lectures by any professor on campus or even let students monitor courses from other schools. Built-in computer terminals, similar to ones in place at Dartmouth, could tap into the card catalogs of half the college libraries in the country, call up encyclopedia articles or scan the daily papers. A glance at the quad outside would show groups of teens in whatever uniform eventually supplants T shirts and blue jeans, but also many older students taking courses...
Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., has found a broader use for computers. Some 200 classrooms and laboratories have been wired with a fiber- optics video information system, complete with color monitors, that allows professors to tap into the school's library of films, videos and laser discs. Tony Edmonds, chairman of the history department, uses the system to teach a course on the Vietnam War. "Now I can discuss the My Lai massacre, press a button and show a two-minute segment on it," he says. "I discuss the antiwar movement and pull up a segment on Abbie Hoffman...
...nonstop kicks, leaps and turns, the 27 dancers, sweating through their leotards, are beginning to drag. But Mark Morris, the precisionist putting them through these paces, is unmoved by their exhaustion. "A little dynamism would help," he drawls, drawing on the Dunhill cigarette he has been using to tap out the beat...
...just a cough. This season the number of new productions has shot up more than a third, from 28 to 38. Total attendance since Jan. 1 has been 13.4% higher than in the same period last year. The range of fare has been unusually broad, from tap dance to Ibsen, from sitcom to Shakespeare. But the biggest buzz is about the abundance of high-profile movie and TV stars who have returned to the risks and rigors of the live stage...