Another academic year has begun, and with the new year comes the Lawrence traditions of Welcome Week, a new year of freshman studies, the Matriculation Convocation, and Fall Festival. What were some of the traditions that Lawrence students enjoyed many years ago? All-College Day and Homecoming are just a couple of the traditions celebrated in the past at Lawrence.
The new Allen Telescope Array, a radio astronomy telescope system to be used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, recently began operation in Hat Creek, Calif. The original SETI array, named Project Phoenix, stopped looking for alien signals in 2004 after looking at only 800 stars over the course of about 10 years.
The new Cinema at the Warch Campus Center has been busy this term. Along with faculty and student groups sponsoring film screenings, there is the ongoing Movies at Midnight on Fridays and the Independent Film Series that plays regularly on Wednesdays. "We wanted to have a recurring series that had documentaries, foreign films and independents," says Marianne Griffin, "so that people knew that there were movies going on here all the time.
Mimms: How long have you been at Lawrence? Joy Jordan: This is the start of my 11th year. I'm in the math department but my doctorate is actually in statistics, and that's why I'm an associate professor in statistics as opposed to math. Mimms: Where did you grow up? Jordan: Iowa; I grew up in a little town called Mt.
Yesterday was China's 60th National Day. National Day marks the founding of The People's Republic of China, which took place Oct. 1, 1949, when Chairman Máo Zéd?ng proclaimed the formation of the new government at Ti?n'?nmén Square.
Red Curry Serves 4 Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 3 tablespoons Thai red curry paste 1 can regular coconut milk 1 pound any kind of meat or tofu 12 ounces sliced mushrooms 1/2 green bell pepper, cut into strips Handful of fresh basil leaves Sugar Fish sauce (or salt) Crushed red pepper Any kind of vegetable you want to add, so long as it is not something you would not add to a soup, such as lettuce or cucumber Method: Stir-fry the curry paste in the oil on medium-high heat for one minute.