Mariecar Mendoza With the hard rhythms of a thunderstorm rolling across the outback plains of Australia, the Tap Dogs’ boots beat the stage with a rhythm that neither slags nor slops. The Tap Dogs, six Australian men that tap-dance, look like blue-collar construction workers, in flannel shirts and denim jeans. Their loud percussion will rattle […]
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Architecture professor showcases historic building materials
michael mullady Each handmade, architectural ornament in Howard Weisenthal’s exhibit of historical building materials is a testimony to architecture appreciation. The exhibit, which is on display in the lobby of the Architecture and Environmental Engineering Building, showcases a variety of pieces from Weisenthal’s personal collection. One piece, from a building in Philadelphia, is a worker’s […]
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Jewish lecturer discusses current state of Germany
brennan angel World War II is over, Nazi Germany is defeated. Humanity, its amazing unquenchable spirit, begins living anew. At the end of the war, millions were dead and all but 15,000 German Jews were in foreign lands. There is to be a remarkable migration of Jews back to Germany closely following the end of […]
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Chemistry alumnus finds largest prime number
Caitlin Donnell In a universe of exactness and concrete formulas, they’ve been called rowdy, erratic, disorderly, humongous, beautiful, monstrous integers. Yet, many people are spending a lot of time looking for them. They are prime numbers, numbers that can only be divided by themselves and by one. Ever since Euclid, the great Greek mathematician, proved […]