In its lead editorial on Aug. 29, The New York Times called for the elimination of the Electoral College. Critics have charged that the Electoral College gives a few swing states too much power.
The 2004 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism are out - and KQED, San Francisco has won the $10,000 Grand Prize. Top honors also went to the Public Broadcasting System's P.O.V.'s Borders project.
Purdue University is celebrating a milestone for one of America's oldest journals of literary criticism this year. The Department of English is recognizing the 50th anniversary of Purdue's Modern Fiction Studies with a symposium on Oct. 1.
George W. Bush has a very good chance of winning a second term in the White House, according to "trial-heat-and-economy" and "convention bump" forecasts produced by James E. Campbell, professor of political science at the University at Buffalo.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation's American Indian Studies Consortium presents "Native Peoples and Museums: Building Reciprocal Relationships for the 21st Century."
Can a new college freshman become a great writer? You bet! But it will take some work - and a little help. University of Maryland Associate Professor Linda Coleman is the director of the Freshman Writing Program on campus.
Monopolies, wartime laws, environmental concerns and faith-based initiatives sound like the fodder of modern-day headlines, but a British lawyer wrote extensively about all of these issues more than 400 years ago, according to University of Arkansas law professor Steve Sheppard.
If you're of a certain age, a feeling of déjà vu might come over you as you scan the nightly news. And if some of the themes have a familiar, vaguely-like-the-80's feel to them "“ and not in a good way "“ rest assured that it's not just you.
Nearly 50 years after the Montgomery bus boycott, which marked the beginning of Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership of the Civil Rights Movement, an Elizabethtown College religion professor shares King's vision of the good life in his new book.
A major exhibition drawn from the Paul R. Jones Collection, which is among the oldest, largest and most comprehensive collections of works by 20th century African American artists in the world, will open in September and continue through the 2004-05 academic year at the University of Delaware in Newark.
Reporters can find experts on election issues ranging from the South's role in the 2004 presidential race to the role of government in stem cell research using the new Vanderbilt 2004 election Web site.
An artist will "lynch" the Confederate battle flag on a specially built 13-foot-high outdoor gallows at Gettysburg College Sept. 3.
Stephen Brunet, associate professor and coordinator of the classics program at the University of New Hampshire, can comment on the modern Olympic games vs. the ancient games.
Emily Bernard examines the complexities of interracial friendships in "Some of My Best Friends," published this week by Amistad/HarperCollins. Through contributed essays, the book explores the ingredients that make interracial friendships possible--and impossible.
The School of Design and Production at the North Carolina School of the Arts will add a graduate program in performing arts management to its repertory this coming fall. This new program is designed to train the future executive leadership of America's performing arts organizations.
A series of half-hour documentaries on Latino art and culture in the United States will premiere in Tucson with three episodes on Friday, Aug. 6.
A new way to read Shakespeare? Although William Shakespeare has been one of the most studied authors in history, a U of T English professor is working to change the way we understand his plays.
News conference to announce results of the Books for Boston book drive and to present $25,000 in college scholarships from Sallie Mae to Boston students and participants in Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), a school-to-career program implemented in 1,000 schools across the country.
This September 11, "Andy Warhol: Intimate Unseen" will premiere at an opening reception at the Brattleboro Museum of Art, followed by a Studio 54 Disco party at the River Garden on Main Street. The exhibit will then officially open on September 18 and continue through through February 6.
Domestic Central Asian online media are unable to report about controversial religion issues because of sparse resources and governmental, cultural and self-imposed restraints.
Like Radio Free Europe was to those behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, black radio stations and disc jockeys often were as important as ministers and politicians in mobilizing support for the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
After more than a decade of recording and categorizing 20,000 patterns and scanning the front and back of each package into an electronic data base, the largest collection of clothes patterns in the world is now available in a two-volume CD set containing patterns dating from 1868 to 1956.
Sen. John Kerry frequently quotes poems by Langston Hughes, notably his highly critical 'Let America Be America,' sparking renewed interest in the visionary African-American poet.
News conference to announce results of the Books for Boston book drive and to present $25,000 in college scholarships from Sallie Mae to Boston students and participants in Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), a school-to-career program implemented in 1,000 schools across the country.
When the summer Olympic Games begin in Athens next month, the event will mark a return not only to the games' ancient roots but also to its modern ones.
The seemingly ordinary elements of life that provide the backdrop for William Faulkner's fiction are the focus of this year's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, one of the longest-running U.S. literary events focusing on the works of one author.
Doodling can shape the best literary work.
July Jazz Getaway (JJG) was conceived in 1993 as a simple idea: a place where adult amateur jazz musicians could get away from their usual daily lives and get together to play lots of jazz in a fantasy camp, vacation atmosphere.
A non-profit organization is raffling off "A Slice of Heaven," a secluded cabin in the Upper Peninsula wilderness, to raise funds for education and workforce development programs.
The dream becomes reality with the grand opening performance in the Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University. American entertainment icon Tony Bennett will open the 440-seat Music and Theatre Hall, captivating the audience with his commanding performance.
Maryland's Director of Jazz Studies, Chris Vadala, performed a number of times with Ray Charles, who passed away last Thursday.
In "Ulysses," James Joyce captured the progress of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and other residents of Dublin on June 16, 1904. Quite an appreciation for a man who wrote in his notebooks: "Today 16 June 1924 twenty years after. Will anyone remember?"
English professor and author Ben W. McClelland, who recently published a memoir of his emotional quest to "know" his father who was killed shortly after being captured during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, reflects on the dedication of the WWII memorial and current conflicts abroad.
Historic snow-crystal collection from photographer who proved no two snowflakes are alike is available again via digital library.
A magical landscape inspired by Celtic culture is one of 13 gardens selected for the Westonbirt Festival of The Garden this summer in England. The "Otherworld Garden" is the creation of an associate professor of landscape architecture.
To coincide with the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy invasion during World War II, UMR military historian Dr. John C. McManus has published a unique new book that examines the battle from the American perspective.
The world's most notoriously difficult-to-read novel, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, is really an easy read at its heart, according to the Joyce Scholar-In-Residence at the University at Buffalo.
A.R. Ammons is celebrated in an unprecedented 480-page issue of Epoch magazine. It includes 30 unpublished poems, prose pieces from all phases of the poet's career, entries from Ammons' Navy diary; 21 remarkable watercolors by the poet, letters, conversations and other ephemera.
Relationship between medicine and literature in 16th and 17th-century Renaissance England says professor.
Kate McDonnell is an up-and-coming musician--and soon-to-be Tufts University grad. McDonnell, 37, will receive her bachelor's degree on Sunday, May 23, and will release her debut CD a few days later. Fellow songwriter/Tufts alumna Tracy Chapman will be at the podium.
Two foundations established by members of the Grateful Dead have contributed funds to help preserve the archive of the late composer Lou Harrison at UC Santa Cruz.
Excitement is building for Warner Brother's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, opening in theaters June 4. One of UM's own Harry Potter experts - Jennie Levine - says that "Prisoner of Azkaban" is her favorite book of the series. She thinks this film will be the best to date.
Nationally recognized historian and professor Elliott West will help bring the experiences of settlers in the late 1800s to life. He has joined the Homestead Heritage Center project team of the Homestead National Monument of America.
In his most recent novel, "With," art professor Donald Harington creates a world from the perspective of a missing child, telling the sometimes harrowing, sometimes inspiring tale of the decade she spent growing up on a mountain with only animals and a spirit to keep her company.
Next month, Steven M. Burke, winner of The 2004 Rome Prize for Musical Composition, will take leave from his post as music faculty member in composition to accept a one-year residency at the American Academy in Rome.
Many of us who look at Caddisflies think yuck, insects (unless you're a trout, and think yum, dinner). But Kathy and Ben Stout see something entirely different: thousands of tiny workers, meticulously building jewelry pieces out of semiprecious stones.
Renowned writer and associate professor of creative writing Ellen Gilchrist was recently awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award on behalf of the English department at UNC Chapel Hill and the Thomas Wolfe Society. Gilchrist has also been chosen as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Tulane University.
Police and other workers exposed to the shadow of death share little-recognized psychological symptoms with survivors of the Holocaust,according to a study of 50 cops by a former NYPD sergeant. He now works for more humane policies.
Thanks to Purdue University Press' first digital book, readers can learn what some of the greatest minds in 18th century literature might say today if they traded their quill pens for keyboards.
Lori Belilove & Company, resident performing company of the Isadora Duncan Foundation, will perform the West Coast premiere of "Isadora...no apologies" on Friday, April 16, 2004 at Mills College.
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