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Students know more politics than pop culture
(U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. - According to a recent study by Tufts University political science professor Kent Portney, Tufts students may be leaving US Weekly at the newsstands and picking up The New York Times instead. The study, which was released in Feburary, found that students are more likely to be knowledgeable about the 2008 presidential race or Social Security reform than Britney Spears' latest marital difficulties.
Entitled "National Survey of Civic and Political Engagement of Young People," the study came to some surprising conclusions.
Not only are young people much more politically informed, the study found, but they know more about relevant politics than they do about popular culture.
"I was very surprised," Portney said. "I expected that students would be not very knowledgeable [about politics], and that they would know a lot more about pop culture."
The study was originally suggested by Tisch College Dean Rob Hollister and donor Jonathan Tisch as a way to measure the effectiveness of Tufts programs designed to increase civic engagement and awareness.
CNNj runs King Sized Week to April 21
The King Sized Week runs April 17 to 21 on CNNJ to mark award-winning broadcaster Larry King's 50th anniversary in broadcasting this April. Starting in 1957 at a small radio station in Miami, King's career has spanned five decades and more than 40,000 interviews. King is credited with altering the face of broadcasting with his everyman touch having interviewed everyone from presidents and kings, celebrities and newsmakers, and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. In a rare interview he recently sat down and instead of asking the questions put himself in the hot seat. QUESTION: You started off in radio, was it easy to make the switch to TV. LARRY KING: I've really been on radio and TV all my life. I started in radio in '57, started television in '59.
Our Critics Picks
Surely one of the strangest Nashville musical outfits ever, Los Straitjackets have been wowing audiences with their musical virtuosity and carnival barker weirdness for more than a decade. The Mexican wrestling masks are a dead giveaway that something different is going on, but this time around, in support of their latest release Rock En Espanol Vol. 1, they're traveling with the leader of Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys, who'll handle all the vocals as the Straits power through a veritable compendium of hits from Mexican radio in the '60s. Selections range from “Hey, Lupe" (Los Rockin' Devils' version of the hit “Hang on Sloopy") to a Mexican version of “Wild Thing" retitled “Loco te Patina el Coco" (rough translation: “Crazy Person Slides the Coco to You"). In between will be covers of such classics as Arthur Alexander's “Anna" and a mean version of “Bony Maronie." Let the rock 'n' roll extravaganza begin.
East Africa: Popular Literature in East Africa Gets a Shot in the Arm
The launch of Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa at the University of Nairobi was a major step in the development of popular literature in East Africa. Popular literature is a loose term used to refer to non-elitist or 'serious' books. .
Death of a clown
THE death at 77 of French thinker Jean Baudrillard, best known for the flamboyant title of his 1991 screed, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and the salute to his doubts about reality in The Matrix (1999), did take place on March 6. No one spent an instant wondering if it might be one of the eccentric thinker's simulacra shimmering in a world of faded authenticity. Newspapers, no fans of mere appearance, provided blunt takes on the man. .
Religious Literacy
By that time, we were all so tired and thought well, we've seen the Basilica, maybe we'll cut the second tour short or cancel. We met up with Father Jonathan, explained about the morning tour, and told him he didn't have to take so much time with us. Father Jonathan started the tour ... but this time, it was different. He began with the spiritual meaning of every part of St. Peter's Square and the Basilica. The statues of Peter and Paul flanking the church had now become the two pillars of Christianity, one holding "the keys to the Kingdom," the other grasping the spear of martyrdom. The statue of Jesus gracing the center roof now became the voice of "and I will draw all men unto me." I was in awe and humbled. Our fatigue disappeared. We didn't want the tour to end.
Jew-Muslim dialogue deeper than it seems
Once every year, we Jews gather around the seder table to recount the Passover story, but one narrative has not found its way into the Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jewry) canon.
This past Tuesday, the eighth and final day of Passover, the Middle East Dialogue Group celebrated a festival with some 70 people interested in exploring the long-overlooked Moroccan Jewish Mimouna tradition.
According to Yigal Bin-Nun's April 7 article "Lady Luck" (from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz), the word "Mimouna" expresses its theological origins. It is normally depicted as a holiday of faith because of its similarity to the Hebrew word "emuna," or faith. It is linked to revolutionary rabbi and physician Maimonides because the celebration falls on his father Rabbi Maimon's birthday.
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