You are not a child. Stop acting like one. Raise your hand in class. When a professor asks a question, don’t just hear the question. Hear a small voice say a little something more: “Raise your hand if you’re not an undisciplined child.” By raising your hand, you silently say, “I am an adult. I...
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November 7, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Movie review: “Ender’s Game”
The visually stunning mediocre highlight reel of a great book. That is the “Ender’s Game” movie. Based on the novel by Orson Scott Card, the film will neither thrill fans of the book, nor will it cause them to swear to kill the director with a dull plastic spoon. Viewers unfamiliar with the story will...
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October 31, 2013July 12, 2022Features
Sabbatical life: student-free study
Samuel Knecht, professor of art, is one of a number of professors taking the whole semester off on Sabbatical. He’s been painting, a lot. “Some local, and some involving travel,” Knecht said, “The travel points, three of them: the Upper Peninsula, Leelanau near Traverse City in upper Michigan—the third destination was Monhegan Island, Maine.” Knecht,...
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October 17, 2013July 12, 2022Features
Gaetano earns Ph.D.
A professor skipped school last Thursday. He was at the University of Pennsylvania instead. And yes, he had permission. When he left, Matthew Gaetano was a professor in the history department. He has returned now, a changed man. He is Matthew Gaetano, doctor of history. Gaetano skipped school to defend his dissertation. That was the...
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October 3, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
Masked marvels and wondertales
Bang! Smash! Pow! While Adam West’s Batman put the comic in comic book, reinforcing their mental equation with Saturday morning cartoons and nerdy teenagers who refuse to “grow up,” there is nothing funny about the artistic and storytelling value of graphic novels. All should read them or remain deprived of a medium of expression both...