Here are some posts from the Greenpage last week that might be worth your time:
CMU may buy land for $7.5 million
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Carnegie Mellon University is close to completing the purchase of a vacant gasoline service station at 4655 Forbes Ave., Oakland, a deal that will end a three-year dispute with a developer who planned to build a $35 million hotel on the site."News: College Accountability, From the Left
Inside Higher Ed: "The Center for American Progress has impeccable credentials for the Obama era. In the same way that the right-leaning Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute had the attention of the Bush administration, the Center for American Progress, headed by the former Clinton confidante John Podesta, is the think tank for the current White House. Time magazine called the center 'Obama's idea factory' after his election last year.
Which makes the center's new white paper on higher education all the more interesting -- and, perhaps, all the more concerning to some college leaders."Standards of Education
Theatre Ideas: "I just returned from a quick trip to Illinois to see my stepson, Jake Olbert, perform in Illinois State University's production of Into the Woods. It was a very strong production, marred only by a small amount of directorial tinkering. After the performance Friday night, the show, which was an Associate entry in the American College Theatre Festival, received a 'response' from an ACTF rep from a school down the road."Theater of War Uses Sophocles to Help Anguished Soldiers
NYTimes.com: "The ancient Greeks had a shorthand for the mental anguish of war, for post-traumatic stress disorder and even for outbursts of fratricidal bloodshed like last week’s shootings at Fort Hood. They would invoke the names of mythological military heroes who battled inner demons: Achilles, consumed by the deaths of his men; Philoctetes, hollowed out from betrayals by fellow officers; Ajax, warped with so much rage that he wanted to kill his comrades."A new language for a new American theater
The Denver Post: "As many theater companies retrench into the economic safety of familiar seasonal fare, Curious Theatre ventures forth into the thrill of the unknown.
While more than 30 area companies are readying safe, holiday-themed plays, Curious on Saturday opens 'Ameriville,' a form-bending, socially conscious new fusion of spoken-word poetry, hip-hop, jazz, comedy and politics.
'When theater loses the pulse of what its community really needs, that's when I think it has failed,' said Chay Yew, who is directing this piece written and performed by the nationally regarded Bronx-based ensemble Universes."
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