In April, Xue Wei, a former professor of violin at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing, posted on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media channel, to accuse Tong Weidong, the current dean of the orchestral instrument department at the same conservatory, of sexual abuse toward students and corruption in the entrance examination process. […]
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College closures make headlines, but nearly 23,000 new academic programs have been added over the past two decades. By Brian O’Leary and Audrey Williams June Randy Lyhus for The Chroncile // for full bleed half split – figure’s parent container shouldn’t calc max-height // and should be set to 100% instead – querySelector === baseClassName
Skyscrapers get a bad rap but are crucial to the success of cities, writes economics professor Jason Barr. Skyscrapers remain controversial in the 21st century, yet they are getting taller and more numerous. Seven times more buildings of 150 metres or taller have sprung up since 2000 than were constructed in the entire 20th century.
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In the wake of the protests, 22 scholars recommend books to make sense of this moment. Animation by The Chronicle; iStock // for full bleed half split – figure’s parent container shouldn’t calc max-height // and should be set to 100% instead – querySelector === baseClassName let parent = document.querySelector(‘figure.FullBleedFigureHalfSplit’).parentElement parent.style.maxHeight = “100%” In the
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Review of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs, 2024) When Village Voice columnist Arthur Bell got home late one evening in August 1972, he had an answering machine message from a friend. Two gay men were robbing
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You see a lot of this on TikTok now: videos that describe ordinary life using the language of television. Scroll through, and you’ll find users charting the different “seasons” of their lives or highlighting the emergence of plot “arcs.” – The New York Times Source link
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By Sonel Cutler Illustration by The Chronicle The president of East Georgia State College says he wants to reassure students and families. But communication experts caution against playing the comparison game. Source link
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Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright and professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since 1980, she has been interviewing Americans through her project “On the Road: A Search for American Character.” This article is adapted from the first of four A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts presented at the
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Updated on Friday, May 17 at 3:27 pm Three high-profile women in Congress got into it last night during a meeting of the House Oversight Committee, in what some outlets have described as a “heated exchange.” But that label feels too dignified. Instead, the whole scene played out like a Saturday Night Live sketch: a
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Nick Reiner had a problem. Reiner, a DJ and producer who goes by the moniker Major Vibes, was planning another Taylor Swift-themed party for the club Tellus 360 in Lancaster, Pa., and wanted to use the songs from her newest release, “The Tortured Poets Department.” “And then I heard the record and I was like,
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