Nederlands Dans Theater Faces Humiliating Cuts In Budget (50%) And Status (To Suburban Amenity)

“The cultural council of Holland recently proposed cuts of up to half [NDT’s] annual budget. (The Dutch National Ballet, the country’s largest dance company, faces a 26-percent amputation.) … NDT may also be downgraded to ‘regional amenity’ status. Its [sold-out world] tours … would take a back seat to appearances in Dutch suburbs.”

How MIT Leads The Way To The Future

“For the past 150 years, MIT has been leading us into the future. The discoveries of its teachers and students have become the warp and weft of modernity, the stuff of daily life that we now all take for granted. The telephone, electromagnets, radars, high-speed photography, office photocopiers, cancer treatments, pocket calculators, computers, the internet, the decoding of the human genome, lasers, space travel . . . the list of innovations that involved essential contributions from MIT and its faculty goes on and on.”

The Paperless Office – A Myth?

“Media historians have long recognized the astounding versatility, portability, and durability of paper, which is in many respects the ideal material support. As a corollary, the paperless office has been dismissed as a “myth” by social scientists, information engineers, and corporate consultants alike, who predict that paper’s many affordances will continue to make it indispensable.”

Increasingly, Arts Students Seek Training At For-Profits

“The difference between the non- and for-profit art colleges may not be the quality of the education but the nature of the student. Those taking classes at for-profits schools tend to be older than 18 to 22; the average age of an Art Institute student, for example, is 25. The students are more racially and ethnically diverse and less affluent than those at nonprofits.”