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...combat the deep-rooted bureaucratic barriers between schools, Faust has designated University-wide themes??human rights, global health, and library reform are a few examples—and established new institutes that serve as magnets, Leonard says, pulling professors together from across disciplines. These provide environments more conducive to faculty collaboration...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Blank Slate | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...would be just as happy to learn and move on. Even within existing departments, courses and curricula do not have to aim for permanence. I could easily imagine a small group of faculty in my department joining together to offer temporary tracks or plans of study centered on powerful themes??human rights, the deep history of slavery, economic catastrophes—that take form as courses, seminars, public lectures, and even thesis projects. We already shuffle our decks repeatedly in pursuit of new research initiatives. Can’t we do the same for our courses and curricula...

Author: By Daniel L. Smail | Title: Shuffling the Deck | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...personal stories. “This play is less about the death penalty and more about the human experience. People shouldn’t be coming in tense and worried about having an opinion,” says Ragin.Each of the six individuals’ stories contains similar, overlapping themes??such as hope and redemption in the midst of such a trying ordeal—and their individual narratives are knit together in vignettes that follow their respective arrests, interrogation, incarceration, and eventual exoneration. The theatrical presentation of these paralleled stories questions the presence of justice...

Author: By Minji Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Exonorated' Explores Death Penalty | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...difficulties with the play’s final, explosive scene, the cast of eight’s seamless buildup of the most heart-wrenching human emotions begs the audience to return for the drama’s conclusion and ensures that—even with its treatment of hackneyed themes??this is not a play you’ve seen before...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spiritual and Moving, ‘Angels’ Transcends Clichés | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...comedy,” says Mia P. Walker ’10, director of the show’s latest incarnation opening tonight at the Loeb Ex. Walker, who is also a Crimson Arts writer, is seeking to draw out the play’s more outrageous and taboo themes??an attempt to substantiate this “schoolboy comedy” and create an engaging and moving performance.In a play that focuses so much on the shifting and ambiguous teacher-student relationship, using a cast of just college students poses a challenge, with no visual differentiation between...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making History at the Loeb Ex | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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