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'I Support John McCain'
College students attending this year's Republican National Convention explain why they support the candidacy of Sen. John McCain, who was officially nominated as the party's presidential candidate this week.
'I Support Ron Paul'Thousands of supporters of Ron Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, flocked to the Twin Cities this week for a gathering held during the Republican National Convention. Mr. Paul, a libertarian who ran for the Republican nomination for president, remains popular with many college students even after dropping out of the race.
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'We're Always in Language'Michael Holquist, the 2007 president of the MLA, explains why the group's recent conference explored the role of humanities outside the academy.
Joe Sanchez, U. of Texas at Austin
Libraries in virtual worlds will join physical libraries.
Susan Gibbons, U. of Rochester
Library schools need to update their curricula.
Nick Baker, Williams College
Companies like Google will bring "new blood" to libraries.
Casey Bisson, Plymouth State U.
Libraries need to be more than community centers.
Jessamyn C. West, Librarian.net
Librarians are not very "change oriented" as a culture.
Sarah Kostelecky, Institute of American Indian Arts
Diversity is important to the library profession.
Char Booth, Ohio U.
There will always be a need for librarians.
Brian Mathews, Georgia Institute of Technology
There's too much "bandwagon jumping" with new technology.
Hear U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings talk about
the continuing impact of last year's report by her Commission on the
Future of Higher Education.
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Podcast
Tech Therapy
Know How Much Technology Costs? Probably Not.Few colleges and universities have a handle on the comprehensive costs of their technology operations. Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant, discuss some of the things to tally — and the consequences for not adding them up.
Interviews
Hal Abelson and Harry Lewis: Making Sense of the 'Digital Explosion'A new book, "Blown to Bits," offers engineer's-eye views on copyright infringement, digital censorship, and "why we lost our privacy, or gave it away." Two of the book's authors —Hal Abelson, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harry Lewis, a professor of computer science at Harvard University — weigh in on what they call "the digital explosion."
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A Road Trip for Alma Mater
Three young graduates of Wittenberg University crossed the country in a van, meeting alumni along the way. (Photograph by John Gurzinski)
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At Furman University this summer, Japanese artisans painstakingly reconstructed a Buddhist temple that had been disassembled into 2,400 pieces in their country and shipped to South Carolina. (Photograph by Jeremy Fleming)
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What was it like to stand along Cheapside, London's great market street, during a 17th-century parade? An online map of early modern London offers some clues.
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Cliffs Cottage, Southern Living magazine's new
"showcase home" on the campus of Furman University, intends to teach
visitors what's possible in green residential building.
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When he started college, Ricky James already knew he wanted to
be a pasto — but he had to change his idea of what preparing for ministry
entailed.
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