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February 1999
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| Play
Practice: Nine College students and one recent
alumnus contributed more than acting skills to Chicago’s Steppenwolf
Theatre’s fall production of The Berlin Circle. |
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| Application
up: For the 1999–2000 academic year, the College
has seen a rise in applicants and in the number of applicants
with high SAT scores. |
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| Three
for the Rhodes: For the first time in University
history, the College can boast three Rhodes scholarship winners
in a single year. |
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| South
Asian students unite: Learning to care
about the welfare of others and deciding to help improve human
conditions is a lifelong process, said Indian actor and Parliament
member Shabana Azmi at the 11th annual South Asian Students
Alliance conference held in downtown Chicago in January. |
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| Good
deeds done: Giving to charity isn’t a
question for computer programmer Randy Smith, SB’86, and his
partner, Lori Kenschaft, a graduate student in American history
at Boston University. |
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| Taste
in Television: As head of a national television
network, Dean Valentine, AB’76, doesn’t have much room for sentiment.
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novel approach: Dawn broke gently over the gardens
of MPM Manor....It’s not the opening to one of her novels, but
the real life of mystery writer Barbara Mertz, PhB’47, AM’50,
PhD’52, on her ten-acre homestead—named MPM Manor—near Frederick,
Maryland. |
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