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…1 l s ' i 'J -rv u t - _ What makes or breaks a college teacher's career? BY JULIE BLAIR HiPE COLLEGE, MICH. ILLUSTRATIONS iY: DAVID BARNEDA, BUCKNELL U. E DRONES. HE MOANS. HE PON- tificates pointlessly for hours, a cloud of chalk dust settling like dandruff on the shoulders of his tweed jacket. The Bad Professor is the bane of all students, and thanks to the tenure process, he may remain at your alma mater long after you've graduated. Wors...…

…I BY SHAD POWERS MICIHGAN STE U.'95 GRAD OME PEOPLE WERE BORN TO BE the best actor, doctor, astronaut or singer. But what about those whose expertise lies in the field of power walking, badminton, the hammer toss or Greco-Roman wrestling? It's downright impossible to make even pocket change on a street corner fencing or doing the triple jump. Their only goal, and the only place they can peddle their wares, is the grandest of athletic events ...…

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…POO Fy Y b i K . Who needs people when you have a com- puter? BY TARA H. ARDEN-SMITH HARVARD U. PN oios }Y: EDWARD MARAVlI1A, CALIORNIA STA]E U., CHICo FLINT WAINESS IS A BUSY GUY. As president of the student assembly, the senior represents the U. of Michigan's 40,000 stu- dents before university adminis- trators and the world. To do his job well, Wainess needs to spend a lot of time talking to a lot of people: campus leaders, random con- st...…

…Bits and Bytes Warning: Hackers can intercept any information trans- mitted over an insecure Web page. Don'tsend yourcreditcard numberthrough cyberspace unless you're sure the page is secure. (You'll be told if it is.) Kiosks: Soon all the cam- puses will be doing it. Students can stop by one of the ports to find where they're going, look up campus phone numbers, check out coming events, access their financial aid records, grades and class sch...…

…much less formal," he says. "You can figure out what you want to say and keep trying until you get it right. I can be more myself over e-mail. One pro- fessor joked with me and called me a goofball. I just don't think that's the kind of conversation we could have had if we were in his office." The meek, it seems, have inherited the world (Wide Web?). The Internet scene is rapidly grow- ing. Some estimate 20 million users worldwide and a growth...…

…HOmLLYWOOD CAM IHAC IT Movie makers are taking a byte out of pop culture BY JEFF NIESEL R EMEMBSER 1111 COMPUT1ER NERDS from Weird Science? How about the scrawny yct brainy Matthew Broderick in War Games? In the not-so-distant past, computer users appeated on the silver scteen as socially ioept characters who found more excitement in the cyhberworid than the social realm. But now that the Internet has entered the mainstream, Hollywood has ref...…

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…Phule UnGia BY AUDETTE FULBRIGHT CENTRAL PIEDMONT COLLEGE, N.C. AGENTS ARE STOCK HOLLYWOOD CHARAC- ters. They've been the good guys, the bad guys, the fall guys and more. But Friday nights on the Fox network, two FBI agents live life a bit differently - they track down mysterious UFOs, deadly poltergeists and mutant liver-eating serial killers. It's The X-Files, of course, and although it's a far cry from standard TV fare (or perhaps because i...…

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…an we talk? Talk shows: better than a therapist's couch BY NATALIE Y. MOORE HOWARD U. MERICANS ARE OBSESSED WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S embarrassments - Hugh Grant, Bob Packwood and Courtney Love come to mind. We like outra- geous stories. "We've been through 20 years, at least, of making an industry of the private lives of famous people," says talk show host Jerry Springer. "The talk show simply takes the very same subject matter and opens it up to ...…

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…BYW BONNIE jAT CARY? WE'LL GIVE YOU SCARY. Every movie coming out this month is about a cop or an ex- cop. Besides that, there was a strange fit of guerrilla filmmak- ing, with strange groupings of direc- tors and actors (RuPaul, Roseanne and Lily Tomlin?). And don't forget Halloween XLVI (we didn't bother previewing it - you know the deal). People are strange. Never Talk to Strangers Rebecca DeMornay's cradle-rocking days are over, but she's...…

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…A*E "U AM I~M . U. PHOTO CONTEST FOUR $1,000 GRAND PRIZES Here's your chance to win big money' U is offering four $1,000 cash grand pries for the hrsr photo rntries sub- mitted in foor categories: Campus Life/Traditions, All Around Sports (mod to varsity), Road Trippin', attd Funniest Sights. PLUS, for each entry ptthlished in U doting the year, we'll pay $25. Last year's contest had more than 100 winners - atnd $10,000 its cash prizes. Phsoto...…

…U U ..m EU -U U y. -i BY GLENN MCDONALD i1UTRAHI N itJss'ti MFISINGU. FNEBRAS KA Double Take X Square Ah, the privileged of youth. In his new hook, Managing GenerationX.: How To Bring Out The Best In Young Talent, Bruce Tulgan provides "useful sug- gestions to managers to make the wont of this energetic new hreed of worker." U. Magazine: How do you envision GenerationX? Bruce Tulgan: The' slacker myth is just that. It's an insult. It position...…

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…I I of Music Looking for something fun to do? for an evening where the atmosphere o e join us but the performances are highPowered Trelaxed School of Music has some of the best talent in the nation, and you can see it for only $6.nSo grab a friend and check us out n $ So Oh Coward! Words and music by Noel Coward Oh Coward! is a collection of the wickedly funny songs and scenes that have made No8l Coward one of the most celebrated theatrical w...…