Spring 2004 Features
Information Commons
Before last fall, students used basic computer labs on campus to access
the Web for researching assignments, word processing, and printing.
For questions or guidance, an appointment for a mentoring session with
the Office of Institutional Technology would usually be necessary. Since
September, however, students, faculty, and staff have enjoyed a new
computing and learning space within the Annenberg Library....
PMC Ranked Number One Nationally
for Diverse Student Body
The 2004 edition of US News & World Report America’s Best Colleges
ranked PMC #1 for campus diversity among liberal arts colleges (Bachelor’s
level) in the United States. The ranking is based on the likelihood
of any student interacting with other racial or ethnic groups different
from their own....
PMC “Rocks the Vote”
It was billed as an “unedited and uncensored” face-off among
Democratic presidential primary candidates, designed to “make political
participation cool” for young people between the ages of 18 and
30. But the experts charged with questioning the candidates weren’t
Dan Rather or Peter Jennings. They were young people themselves....
A Friend in Paris
Late on September 11, 2001, like many American francophiles in the United
States, I received numerous urgent calls from friends in France, expressing
their horror and dismay as flashes of the ugly terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center multiplied on their TV screens. All the supportive
messages were truly heartfelt and appreciated, but one such call from
a very special Paris friend, a French Resistance fighter and Buchenwald
survivor during World War II, moved me to tears....
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