On 6 December 2009 Rick Froman wrote:
>In a search to find evidence of a liberal arts college changing
>building names inspired by Harry Potter, I found that Oxford
>University, of all places, had done just such a thing:
> http://tinyurl.com/yg25x46
Well, not quite. Students at one of the Oxford C
The American TV news programme 60 Minutes had an
interesting segment tonight on the Harlem's Children's Zone
(see video at
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml )
It concerns an attempt to close the racial achievement gap
between Black and White by a massive application of fr
Well, we have an older section of our library--not that any building on our
campus is nearly as old as any on the east coast or in England--but they do
tell the students that this older section that is all wood and laden with
shelves of books to the high ceilings is called the Harry Potter room.
Bil Scott doubted that any college-touring high school student would encounter
multiple allusions to Harry Potter. I am much more credulous for the following
reasons:
You can confirm the Middlebury allusion easily by searching their website for
Quidditch. What is really sad is that there is an
This might be a Jayson Blair type description of college search that the NY
Times fell for. I know of no Harry Potter admiission efforts, and I doubt that
any college touring high school student would encounter multiple allusions.
Bunk.
Bill Scott
>>> "Mike Palij" 12/06/09 9:57 AM >>>
The NY
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The NY Times has an opinion piece by a high school student
who is doing the college tour thing and comments on the heavy
handed usage of the colleges he has visited to compare themselves
to things in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter's Hogwarts. Now,
from an adult perspective, this may seem like a brill
The NY Times has an article on new devices are coming
on market next year which may have the capabilities necessary
for traditional textbook (i.e., being able to show text and
color figures/animation in seperate screens). See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06novel.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
