March 15, 1999 Volume 21, No. 12
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March 15, 1999 Volume 21, No. 12 |
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Newsreel
The college football season, the most established public relations mechanism available to higher education, is heralded in with the Playboy Pigskin Preview and ends with the Hooters Hula Bowl Maui All-Star Football Classic, replete with free bikini contest. How curious. As educators who lead institutions where over half of the student body is female, what are you thinking by quietly and regularly accepting sponsorship from companies such as Playboy Enterprises Inc. and Hooters of America Inc. that so specifically objectify women? Although the development of legislation and guiding principles that prohibit sponsorships from corporations that objectify women should be encouraged, the more profound task for college presidents, faculty athletics representatives, and athletic department personnel is to be both inwardly and outwardly respectful of women. If not you, who? And if not now, when? — from an editorial by Ellen Staurowsky, associate professor and coordinator of the sport communication program, in the San Francisco Business Times, Jan. 29, 1999 Twenty local agencies kicked off the International Year of Older Persons on Wednesday in downtown Elmira. The group has planned events during the year to encourage intergenerational and intercultural understanding. John A. Krout, director of the Gerontology Institute at Ithaca College, said one in four Americans will be over 85 in 2030. People are living to older ages and baby boomers have started to enter the ranks of senior citizens, changing institutions from politics to the family. — Elmira Star-Gazette, Jan. 7, 1999 A research team exploring the link between music and intelligence reported that music training is far superior to computer instruction in enhancing children’s abstract reasoning skills, the skills necessary for learning math and science. The role of music in developing intelligence is firmly established. Quite how this occurs is not clear, but it seems that learning music skills forces mental "stretching" useful to other areas of learning. A marvelous source for more information on this topic is Ithaca Conference ’96: Music as Intelligence, a Sourcebook, published by Ithaca College. — Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin, Jan. 5, 1999 |
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