The sign pictured below was posted, by unknown parties, outside the entrance to the CC102 Final Exam in May 2013.
March 18, 2013 at 9:42 am
Prof. Hamill took this photo on the beach in St. John, Virgin Islands, during her vacation there last week.
February 19, 2013 at 5:05 pm
The deadline for Specialty housing is this Thursday, February 21st. For anyone interested in living in the Core House next year it’s important to apply before then. The application is very simple, and should take only a few minutes to complete, and it involves no obligation on your part. In other words, it simply opens […]
February 7, 2013 at 4:55 pm
There will be a special meeting TONIGHT, Thursday February 7th, for students interested in the Summer 2013 program in Greece, about which details appear below. The information session with the “BU Philhellenes” will take place at 6 PM in CAS Room 214. Next Wednesday, February 13th, an info sessions specifically for Core students will be […]
January 16, 2013 at 1:24 pm
This is just a reminder that we’re very interested in helping out anyone from Core who might like to apply for the position of RA for the Core House (especially), 141 Carlton S. in South Campus (5 minutes from CAS) or the Core Floor in Warren Towers. The catch is that the last, mandatory info […]
November 30, 2012 at 11:17 am
Core students, faculty, and alumni are invited to contribute to “Marginalia.” This will be a series of images showing how readers relate to their books via underscoring, scribbles, and other forms of mark-up. This first entry in the series comes from Prof. Sassan Tabatabai’s personal copy of King Lear. Click on the image for a […]
November 19, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Professor Ricks lectured last week to the students of CC201 on the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Since he did not have time enough in the short span of the lecture period to grant the students a sung performance of any of the poems, here is a popular American singer Rufus Wainwright with his own musical […]
October 22, 2012 at 2:47 pm
An excerpt from The New Yorker magazine on “The Woman Reader” by Belinda Jack. In the history of women, there is probably no matter, apart from contraception, more important than literacy. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, access to power required knowledge of the world. This could not be gained without reading and writing, […]
