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A Note on Unending Education in Auroville
It is a characteristic of Auroville that people who come with a given professional profile and training often choose to take another path, more suitable to their personality and therefore more useful for themselves and society. Many of the activities existing today, in education, art, business, afforestation, farming, social work, alternative technologies, architecture and others, are the result of a discovery and learning process, at least as much implementation of previously acquired know-how as newly acquired insight and skills. In this sense, Auroville owes its present reality to its own process of unending education.
Unending education and constant progress are mentioned in the second article of the Charter, and therefore present themselves as a fundamental characteristic of life in Auroville. It should not be considered in isolation, but rather in its relation with the other articles to reveal its true scope and meaning. Nevertheless the proposal to shift the aim of society from individual satisfaction to unending education and constant progress has considerable consequences by itself. We will evoke a few of them in the domains of schools, economy, conflict resolution and governance.
Education in Auroville Schools
School names
Auroville education started with a paradox when the first school of Auroville was named Last School by the Mother. The other names given by her were not less destabilising. Written in a sequence, they present themselves as Last School, After School, Super School, No School. Creatively thought-provoking, they suggest that the education schools aim at will be found in going beyond the present school-formula. They suggest also, when put in relation with the second article of the Auroville Charter, that the whole city can become a vast campus of unending education and constant progress.
The question is, therefore, to find the programs and methods that will enable our school system to fulfil the true mission of education: the development of consciousness in human beings. The mission of Auroville education is not to produce ready-made citizens for a system that cannot anymore find solutions for the problems it has created; it is to help the emergence of men and women able to consciously build themselves on a true basis, while building a new world in which they chose to live together without exclusion and around common aims.
Forming integrally developed beings
Preparing the children to live a life of unending education and constant progress is very different from training them in order to make them 'employable' on the labour market. We aim at forming human beings as complete as possible in the respect of the svabhava and svadharma, the true nature and law of development of each one. Hence the reference to integral education, developing the instruments of mind, life and body, in relation to the inner being, and open to a higher and truer consciousness, which need not to be presented here.
Preparing the Students for the Unexpected
The characteristics of the world in 20 years from now are unknown, except that they will be rich in new challenges at an unprecedented scale and complexity. Still, it seems that everywhere students are conditioned to fit in the unsustainable world of yesterday. Auroville has to prepare the students to be ready for a world that doesn't exist yet, to think out of preconceived ideas, and to face new challenges in a creative and cooperative manner, carried by the faith that a new world is possible. There is no existing certificate system to validate this. The surest way to prepare the students to a challenging but unknown future is to help them to develop their personality as integrally as possible and to prepare them to enter an unending process of learning.
A culture of synthesis
In a world of conflicting interest and ideals, of which Auroville represents a microcosm, the capacity to arrive at a reconciliating harmony will become more and more important. Simplistic and exclusive approaches have to be replaced by a movement of synthesis where what appears antagonistic reveals its needed complementarity. It requires a training of the intellect to adopt this capacity so that it can become its natural movement.
The Needed Dialogues between Cultures
In its process of progressive and conflicting unification, humanity has to solve the question of the universality of common values and the fruitful dialogues between different cultures: What are the values that allow all other values to blossom? Neither secularist nor religious views can pretend at universality since they negate each other, thus failing the test. The conditions of the Auroville experiment, where many people from different cultures come to work within a rural Indian milieu is by itself a challenge: at what conditions can these two cultures find their fruitful complementarity?
All these aspects have to be discovered and worked out experimentally, since there is no ready made model to follow. It is in itself a process of unending education.
Unending Education and Economy
The present dominant economic paradigm, where the egoistic pursuit of individual interests is the key and warrant of the collective happiness, is a fallacy that becomes more and more painful to entertain. By setting education and progress rather than the search for satisfaction as the aim of life in society, the Auroville Charter redesigns the different aspects of the economic paradigm: work, instead of being the means to earn one's living, becomes the field of progress. Giving oneself rather than trying to get as much as possible at the lesser cost is the key to real development for the individual and collective progress.
The possibility offered to progress endlessly, to increase one's capacities of self-discovery and self-mastery, is the main remuneration of work, its natural consequence so to speak. The freedom to embark on a voyage of self-discovery and self-perfection is the only luxury money cannot buy and it is the main wealth of Auroville. For many people on this planet, it is an inaccessible dream. Although extremely scarce, greed has no access to it, for it requires a renouncement of the utilitarian freedom to buy everything in order to enjoy everything at a lesser cost. This is why this ideal cannot be imposed, it finds its full value only when it is willingly chosen. Attachment to an alienating 'freedom' which yokes us to the objects of desire and their possession is what has to be sacrificed, so that we can be born to a greater freedom.
Our bet is that a society founded on the search of a constant progress, where the labour costs are disconnected from its increasing productivity, is the winner in the long run, whatever the modesty of its beginnings. It announces probably the only viable model that can genuinely be extended to all human beings of the planet.
Auroville's economy includes intangible elements that never appear in our financial accounts, but which are effectively created, distributed, and recreated in their nourishing elements. Circulation of money is not needed for this aspect of our activities. What is much needed is the circulation of faith and trust in a common future, the real alternative currency of our transactions, which makes things possible when it is present and impossible when it is not.
The question of what is true development, and development of what, becomes a core issue: An inflation of objects to be produced and consumed at a high cost of energy and pollution, or the unfolding of a multifaceted consciousness in human beings?
Here it should be possible to make bridges between Auroville and all the emergence of a knowledge economy and society, particularly with the corporate world. Knowledge is not given by an overwhelming information; the capacity to make sense of it and to organise it all is essential for the attainment of a truly knowledge based society. We can predict that economy will become more and more dependent on knowledge and, therefore, on education and progress.
Justice and Conflict Resolution
In almost every conflict we find two sides, each one claiming to be right and the other to be wrong, asking the official bodies to give them an august recognition and sanction.
But one winning over the other is no justice, and no truth can claim exclusive rights against other truths, however disfigured they presents themselves. Here also, we aim at an all-reconciliating harmony which cannot be imposed with authority but can only be sought and accepted by the concerned parties. It is essentially an educational process aiming at a progress to be made, a request that lays equally on every one, and which perhaps defines what an Auroville citizenship would mean.
Consequently, suppression and punishment have to be replaced by healing processes of progress and reconciliating approaches. The aim is not to decide who is right or wrong but to have everyone make a progress towards a better mutual understanding, the only basis for true solutions.
It is unnatural to the mind not to be exclusive in its assertions, and therefore it is a difficult step to take. But if we could train ourselves to it, Auroville would harbour a living practice of synthesis, and not only an ideal of it.
Collective Governance
The model of governance by which a group manages to win the majority and then imposes its view to the rest comes into direct contradiction with Auroville ideals of synthesis and reconciliating harmony (not to speak of the corrupting element of electoral competition).
The possibility to replace exclusive assertions by a synthetic movement of knowledge is the core of Sri Aurobindo's thought and a repeated injunction of The Mother. It can be said that it is Auroville svadharma, the law of its development and progressive self-discovery.
Legitimacy is an essential component of governance, and there would be no durable legitimacy for a system of governance that would not make of a reconcilating movement of synthesis the foundation of its knowledge and action.
Here also, there is no model to turn to; the method has to be worked out experimentally, where the whole collective project is turned into a field of a challenging unending education and constant progress.
Auroville, a learning environment open to the world
It appears from the above that Auroville has emerged as a vast campus where a multifaceted research is attempted in many domains, whose unity supports a rich movement of diversity. Auroville's aims and ideals, along with its multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary multi-environment, have established a solid base for a continued pursuit of excellence in its diverse range of avenues for innovative and learning, research and experimentation. The large number of direct beneficiaries (over 13,000 last year) reflects the level of receptivity in India and the rest of the world for what Auroville has to offer.
But the most important element of Auroville is that it is a place oriented towards and offered to the creation of the future. In a world more and more marked by the absence of perspectives for anything new (except in the domain of technology), rushing at high speed towards an unstainable future and disturbed by many movements of regression, a city founded on the principle of unending education and constant progress offered to a higher and truer consciousness makes a difference, palpable in the atmosphere. This experience could be spread by increasing our capacities to welcome a variety of workshops and learning activities in different domains of excellence. A place committed to the invention of the future has something to offer to those who are also in search of the future.
By presenting the possibility of a society where money is not anymore the sign of real wealth, the state the sign of legitimate power and certificate the truthful sign of knowledge and ability, the Mother left us orphaned of the reassuring pillars of past and present values. It often raises the nostalgia of more familiar schemes of thought and action. But the adventure has been given fully, for us to choose and to attempt, not as a dogma to be applied, but as an experimental adventure in the unknown of tomorrow.
The Auroville schools, as all other activities of Auroville, are set in the heart of this experiment and they draw from it the meaning and value of their work.
Jean-Yves Lung, SAIIER
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Free Fight
A look at the best tweets from the world of UFC. Follow @ufc, the list of official UFC accounts, the list of official fighters and the list of Strikeforce fighters to keep up with these guys.
There's No Weight Cut for Comedy
At #Helium for the @joerogan comedy show. He looks like he's carrying a little extra around the mid-section. Haha -Mike Pierce
Better than TigerBlood
Went to the doctor today, he told me my heartbeat sounded like lions having sex. -Miguel Angel Torres
Spoiling the Bunch
BadApple is about to be in full effect. Lets see how Bad I can really be!! -Erik Apple
L.A. Story
Morning LA, starting my day with a Usher song in my car, going to a busy day, Lets Go -Anderson Silva
Arriving in LA on April 3rd!!! -Gegard Mousasi
What a nice day in LA! -Cung Le
Everyone keeps saying how nice it is in LA. Quit rubbing it in!:) I cannot wait to get back to the west coast! -Tyron T-Wood Woodley
Happy Birthday, Ms. Champ!
I got cake for my birthday from @martijndej, @alistairovereem and the GG family..Thank you! http://yfrog.com/h082523448j -MarloesCoenen
Barry vs Kongo Should be Interesting…
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Mayhem Wisdom
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99 Problems & a Beach Aint One
On my way to a weeks vacation on the beach, because my life is awesome. -Sean McCorkle
He Hits my Hair!
Watching Saturday Night Fever. I wish I could be half as cool as john travolta is in this movie. - Daniel Downes
Tim Kennedy: Zombie Slayer
If I were the main character in The Walking Dead things would have gone much differently. -Tim Kennedy
Korean Zombie: Bad Boy Twister
The Korean Zombie did a great job. Way to represent my brother :) -Nam Phan
That was a sick submission by The Korean Zombie!! -Brian Foster
#winning! Thank u! @TeamAlphaMale & Korean top team! -Chan Sung Jung
More Fight Night Live Aftermath
Disappointed and angry, but physically ok. Thanks for the support everyone. If you are in Seattle, come over to El Corazon.
I want to fight again. I feel like Ive been robbed of the reward at the end of training camp. -Dan Hardy
I wasn't tryin 2 impress any1. I
got the win that's exactly what I needed. No pressure on me at all sorry
I didn't finish the fight every1. -ANTHONY JOHNSON
Woohoo! Gonna stop by at Ozzy's
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Wanted to say thx to everyone! @Alienware @Headrushbrand @Battleware @KillCliff @SuckerPunchEnt @UFC and to @Damarques_UFC for stepping up! -Amir Sadollah
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Waylon let me have it the first
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And some guns lack on the real bright and real shading...as they are from metal they could have some more shading. Maybe I'm wrong it's just me and my opinion.
I don't like that glock, few shades, and bad colours and details remake it
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Giant Bufo toads prove dangerous for dogs
VALRICO (FOX 13) - There's a threat in your backyard. It's seemingly innocent and common but it can kill your pet in a matter of minutes.
Bufo toads make a lot of dogs sick this time of year. While the danger is nothing new, it's keeping vets busy.
A Valrico woman wants to remind pet owners how quickly the toxins can take over.
Barkley scurries around again like a normal, energetic pup.
"He still acts like a puppy," Debbie Wahlstrom said. "Very rambunctious, very loving, he likes to cuddle."
Twenty-four hours ago, he couldn't even move.
"He's a regular dog." Wahlstrom said. "He likes to hunt, unfortunately, which is probably what got us into trouble."
After some play time in the backyard Sunday night, Wahlstrom noticed Barkley rubbing his face on the couch.
"I'm like, he must have gotten into something," she said. "I knew we had the toads in the area. I did wash his face off and wiped his mouth out with a wet wash cloth. It was only a few moments after that and he couldn't walk anymore."
As she rushed to the vet, he started having seizures and hypersalivating. Her suspicions were soon confirmed. Toxins from a Bufo toad were attacking Barkley's tiny body.
"You can see the toad's glands on the side is where the toxins come out and the spray into the dogs' mouths," said Dr. Brittany Jager, a veterinarian with BluePearl in Tampa.
You may know them as marine or cane toads. Jager is seeing several cases a week, mostly in the early morning and dusk.
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Jager suggests keeping your pets on a leash during rainy season, when those giant amphibians like to hop around. That's the plan for Barkley.
"He's feeling great and back to normal. Life is good," Wahlstrom said, petting Barkley's brown ears.
Dr. Jager suggests, if you think your dog has been poisoned by a Bufo toad, wash its mouth out with water to get rid of the toxins, just as Barkley's owner did.
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3D super-resolution microscopy of living cells using reversibly switchable fluorophores
Time: Fri 2021-10-01 13.30
Subject area: Biological Physics
Doctoral student: Andreas Bodén , Biofysik, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Testa
Opponent: PhD Francisco Balzarotti, IMP Vienna
Supervisor: Associate professor Ilaria Testa, Biofysik, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab
Traditional optical microscopy techniques are limited in spatial resolution due to the wave nature of light. This means that neighboring objects separated by a distance smaller than about 200 nm cannot be distinguished. Super‑resolution microscopy techniques overcome this limitation by utilizing specific light-matter interactions of fluorescent labels to encode finer spatial detail into the recorded data. Regrettably, current super‑resolution approaches often increase the complexity of sample preparation as well as the energy, time, and invasiveness of the imaging scheme compared to conventional imaging techniques. This makes many of these techniques ill‑suited for imaging the dynamics of living cells. Since many biological studies rely on highly spatially resolved data containing three‑dimensional and temporally dynamic information, developing super‑resolution techniques toward the goal of acquiring such data is vital. With this work, we take several important steps in this direction by utilizing reversibly switchable fluorescence proteins (RSFPs) together with new illumination patterns that allow for a parallelized data acquisition scheme. Even low intensity illumination patterns can induce photo‑switching of the RSFPs and generate specific patterns of fluorescent emission that carry high‑resolution spatial information in all three dimensions. By using RSFPs in a parallelized acquisition scheme, temporally extended recordings can be acquired with low illumination intensities and at high speed. In addition to the imaging schemes, we present a theoretical framework for modelling the impact that RSFP properties on image formation and show how different imaging parameters affect the final image quality. We predict and explore the effect of labelling density and photobleaching on single and timelapse recordings, taking into consideration the stochasticity of labelling and fluorophore fatigue. We also present a new family of red‑shifted RSFPs that can be imaged without the need for near‑UV illumination, allowing even less invasive live‑cell imaging. This work aims to not only provide new tools for imaging, but also to contribute to a better understanding of the underlying concepts and to facilitate future developments of super-resolution microscopy for bio-imaging applications.


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Editor's Note: It's been a while since the last Week In Review post and – given our contributors' schedules and life commitments – we don't anticipate them returning any time soon. We'll post as often as we can. In the meantime, if you are an obsessed Bobcats/Hornets fan with thoughtful, unique perspectives and would like to share them on this site, hit us up on Twitter – @BaselineBuzz.
With only days to go before the league's annual trade deadline, the Baseline breaks down a few plausible scenarios for the suddenly Playoff-determined Bobcats. We begin with…
The Worst Kept Secret Scenario
TRADE: Bobcats send Ben Gordon and Portland's 2014 1st Round pick to the Sixers in return for Evan Turner. Charlotte sends Bismack Biyombo to Boston for Brandon Bass.
We've been reading about the Bobcats' interest in these two players for weeks. At first glance, the rumors are little confusing: While Brandon Bass makes sense as a pick 'n pop backup PF, Evan Turner doesn't remedy Charlotte's spacing issues at the wing and the soon to be restricted free agent will likely get pricey once agent David Falk strongarms Cho & Co in negotiations over the summer. So why would Charlotte trade a late first round pick for him?
For one, even with his three point shooting woes, Turner represents a massive offensive upgrade over Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. While an overall poor distance shooter (28% for his career), Turner has traditionally shot well from the corners. This season he's specifically shot well from the left one (12-29) and we all know who likes to camp out down on the left block. A combined 19-54 from both corners doesn't sound like much until you compare him with the guy he'd likely be stealing minutes from.
MKG is a combined 1-9 from the corners over his one and a half NBA seasons. I triple checked those numbers just to make sure. One for nine. With a once in a generation low post scorer like Al Jefferson on the roster, it's borderline irresponsible to play a non-distance threat like MKG alongside him – and by distance I'm not even talking three pointers. MKG is currently 20-59 on two pointers outside of the paint after going 59-202 (29%) during his rookie campaign. Turner's 43% mark from long two's (his average both this season and last) will make Al think he's playing with Steph Curry by comparison.
On the other side of the ball, Turner's presence allows Coach Clifford to stay big at the wings when MKG or Gerald Henderson go to the bench. Clifford's recent rotation has been to play both point guards, Kemba Walker and Ramon Sessions for the last chunk of the first and third quarters. Bringing Turner and Bass in for Henderson and McRoberts as a combined "Sixth Man" mid-way through the first allows Clifford to maintain the needed perimeter size to protect Big Al on defense while replacing McBob's "point forward" abilities with Turner's – who, until this season, had maintained an assist rate in the high teens.
Trading Gordon's $13 million plus salary to the cap-rich Sixers allows Charlotte the added benefit of opening up around $6 million in additional salary space to take on money in a Biyombo for Bass swap. Bass makes roughly double what Biz is owed this season and the Cats would be buying that wiggle room as well as Turner's services in exchange for Portland's first rounder.
On the court, Bass would be an immediate upgrade over Cody Zeller – whose future is a lot brighter than his dreary present. Bass has logged campaigns as a burly rebounder and defender while playing under Stan Van Gundy in Orlando (on a staff that included both Clifford and Patrick Ewing). His defensive effort hasn't been as consistent since but the Cats would be betting on Clifford reversing the trend. Offensively, Bass would nail all of those mid-range shots Cody is currently missing and further help stretch the floor once McRoberts checks out.
Long term, Bass is only signed for one more season and would provide a safety net should Josh exercise his player option and bolt for greener pastures in July. By the time Bass's contract expires, either Cody will be ready to start or Charlotte could use the funds to go another direction entirely.
Trading Biyombo stings a bit. While he occasionally flashes potential, #biznation is still years away from putting it all together (if it ever happens at all). At $4 million next season, Biyombo is simply too pricey a project for a team already straddled with a similarly raw MKG and his $11 million over the next two seasons.
The (Alternate) Worst Kept Secret Scenario
TRADE: Bobcats send Ben Gordon and Detroit's Protected 1st Round Pick to Orlando for Arron Afflalo and Glen Davis.
This is basically the same trade above with two major exceptions*:
1. The Detroit pick is MUCH more valuable than the Portland first. Should the Pistons fall into the Bottom Eight this June, they'd keep it and the pick rolls over to next season where it is only Top 2 protected. Given the state of the Pistons franchise, anything is possible. At the very least, Charlotte would be trading a young prospect like Gary Harris or Doug McDermott in this June's Draft for the immediate upgrade of Afflalo.
2. The good news is that Afflalo is a tremendous three point shooting wing and potentially the PERFECT fit for this team. Arron has traditionally been a better wing defender than Turner and is a much better off the ball scorer. Afflalo probably should've been selected to the All-Star game ahead of Joe Johnson this year but the Magic's lousy record kept him out. Also his contract runs for another season, so no need for immediate negotiations over the summer.
The downside is that Afflalo is already 28 and wings usually don't get better as they hit 30. Adding Afflalo virtually guarantees a Playoff spot for Charlotte both this season and next but could cost them an intriguing prospect should the Detroit pick fall in the right spot. It's a textbook win-now versus win-later scenario – muddied further by the Bobcats historical inability to draft well.
*One additional exception: Glen Davis is approximately 70% as good as Bass offensively and around 60% defensively. Those numbers are approximate and yes, I am no fan of Big Baby Basketball.


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We caught up with Oisin O'Conner, co-founder of ReCharge, to find out more about how they developed their app.
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Perpetual Grace, LTD: A Sheriff in the Era of the Cartel Season 1, Ep 10
Fun facts: there are specific physicalities of a liar, 11 indications, and any one of them is a strong tell that a person is not being honest. And In baseball, you don't have to pitch right away. You can take your time. You can take your time between pitches.
In baseball. As much as you like. Sometimes it's tough to get into the rhythm of the world. And find a way to rhyme with it. Also, sometimes you just need a proper name to get back in the rhythm. And/or a noble goal. [Season finale]
Perpetual Grace, LTD: The Elements of an Epiphany Season 1, Ep 9
This week, we hear more of the continued adventures of Luke Steel, who totally outsmarted the Crazy Fucking Old Guy. And got out of that crazy shit. Luke learned his lesson, assisted by the crazy old fuck with lessons of love. Lovely lessons of bird style love. And the fear left Luke Steel ripped and really jacked up physique. Also, there's a race against time and the Department of Health, a town covered in old news, and New Leaf chooses a new name.
Perpetual Grace, LTD: Fiveever Season 1, Ep 8
Pa and Ma face off new obstacles, as James faces his own set of hurdles in Half Acre, namely a ranger, an undertaker, and an orphaned son. Also, more on the magical art of Hunkering Down, and The Little Cabin That is Totally Not Scary But Rather is Oh So Filled with Fun and Safety And You Can Stay Here for Three Whole Days and be So Safe and Very Merry.
Perpetual Grace, LTD: Bull Face Season 1, Ep 7
New Leaf shares life lessons from time spent in the barrel. Scotty Sholes looks forward to new-found freedom. There are long hugs, serious discussions, and a peculiar concentration of activity involving, somehow, Mexico.
Perpetual Grace, LTD: When Doves Cry Season 1, Ep 6
The episode where Ben Kingsley sings "When Doves Cry," and Ma (Jacki Weaver) tells Scotty Sholes (Hana Mae Lee) some (mis)information about mourning doves. Also, there's a switch-back Mexico double-cross, but it's not time for the yogurt phase yet.
Perpetual Grace, LTD: Wandering Left Season 1, Ep 5
On Father's Day in Mexico, Pa has a classroom monologue ("A little bit about me, personally I own a helicopter, and, yeah, I'm a black belt in karate with red stripes for some secret shit I know"), and James guides Glenn out of the desert ("Left isn't west. Sometimes it is, I mean, but sometimes it isn't. Life taught me that.") We get some backstory from Sheriff Hector Contreras ("I'm gonna call you 'Speedy,' not for Speedy Gonzales 'cause that's not cool").


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The North Manchester campus of Manchester University is located on a large, wooded campus in northern Indiana, about one mile north of the business section of North Manchester, a town with a population of 6,700.
The original campus, a 10-acre plot with large oak trees, fronts on College Avenue, with the Administration Building at the center. The entire campus and grounds, including the athletic fields and the University woods, cover an area of more than 120 acres. The Koinonia Environmental and Retreat Center in Kosciusko County adds 100 acres of natural land to University resources.
The Fort Wayne campus is located at Dupont and Diebold roads just east of Interstate 69.
Academic Center. Formerly known as Holl-Kintner Hall, the Academic Center houses the campus Welcome Center - home of the Admissions Office and the Sisters' Cafe. Classrooms and offices for the College of Business, and the Communication Studies, Economics, Education, English, History and Political Science, Modern Languages, Peace Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Psychology, and Sociology and Social Work departments are located in the Academic Center.
Administration Building. The central portion of the Administration Building was erected in 1921, combining the original Bible School and Bumgerdner Hall. The offices of the president and most vice presidents are located in this University landmark. In addition, the offices of Academic Resources, University Advancement, Alumni, Financial Services, Media and Public Relations, Publications and Design, Printing Services, the Registrar, and Student Financial Services are located in the Administration Building along with Wampler Auditorium.
Clark Computer Center. Through a generous gift by John G. Clark, a 1932 graduate, the former Goshorn Building was renovated in 1984 into a multi-functional computer center. The Office of Information Technology Services and the Office of University Safety are housed in this building.
Funderburg Library. The library provides materials to serve the University curriculum, bibliographic and interlibrary loan support for research, and instruction in the use of information sources. Wilbur's Cafe is located inside the after-hours study lounge.
Funderburg's three floors can accommodate more than 200 students. Comfortable lounges for relaxed reading are balanced by a computer lab, audio and video equipment, group conferences, and after-hours study. The Teaching Resource Center contains thousands of textbooks and curricular materials for education majors. Special collections include the University archives, Brethren historical materials, and the peace studies collection.
Otho Winger Memorial Hall. This building, named for former Manchester President Otho Winger, contains the art and music departments. There are a number of art studios, classrooms, practice rooms for student use, a four-station computer music laboratory, and a 14-rank pipe organ. The Norman and Grace Wine Recital Hall and Link Gallery provide attractive and welcoming settings for recitals, lectures, meetings and art shows.
Physical Education and Recreation Center. Constructed in 1982 and renovated and expanded in 1997 and 2010, this building houses the exercise and sport sciences department, intercollegiate and intramural sports, and is the center for recreational activities. The multipurpose Stauffer-Wolfe Arena, seating 1,800, provides one competition or six practice basketball courts. Other facilities include the auxiliary gym, Brown Fitness Center, dance/multipurpose room, athletic training facilities, exercise and sport sciences offices, four classrooms, human performance laboratory and two racquetball courts.
Science Center. The Science Center contains 60 classrooms and laboratories, a large lecture hall, faculty offices, a greenhouse and an atrium. The Physics and Mathematics and Computer Science departments are located on the first floor.The Biology Department offices are located on the second floor, and the Chemistry Department is located on the third floor. Various artworks are on display in the three-story atrium, and displays highlighting the history of science at Manchester University are located along the hallways.
To meet the preferences and needs of its diverse student body, Manchester provides a variety of living options in five residence halls, each representing distinctive small groups within the larger University community. To complement classroom learning, to stimulate personal growth, and to spark interpersonal relationships, the residence hall councils and staff present programs and activities for students. A major responsibility of residence hall staff members is to motivate, encourage and advise students in the residential environment.
All residence hall rooms are wired to the campus computer system, which includes internet capability. In addition, each traditional residence hall houses a computer lab equipped with computers and laser printers available for student use.
East Street Apartments provide a number of housing options for students classified as juniors or seniors.
East Hall is a residence hall for 183 men and women. The ground floor provides a large social room, cooking areas, laundry facilities and a TV lounge. The hall has a main lounge and smaller study rooms/ lounges.
Garver Hall provides a home for 269 men and women. This hall, named in honor of a former professor and dean, Earl S. Garver, has two separate residential areas with a shared lounge and recreational area. Garver also has a piano, a TV room and several smaller lounges.
Helman Hall, named in honor of former Manchester President A. Blair Helman, was constructed in 1993. This air-conditioned, co-ed residence hall houses 129 men and women in an alternate floor arrangement. Each suite contains two, two-student rooms and a bath. The Patricia Kennedy Helman Lounge on the first floor provides recreational, TV, meeting and informal conversation areas. Other amenities include elevator service, a kitchenette and vending area on the first floor, laundry facilities and study rooms on each floor.
Oakwood Hall, located on College Avenue, mirrors Helman Hall's design, housing 129 students in four-student suites. A lounge on the first floor provides areas for recreation, conversation and watching TV. It has an elevator, a kitchenette and vending area on first floor, and storage rooms, laundry facilities and study areas on each floor.
Schwalm Hall is named for a former Manchester President Vernon F. Schwalm. This formerly all-male residence hall was renovated and refurnished in summer 2004 to accommodate 208 men and women in a variety of living options. A TV lounge and a recreational area are available for student use.
The University maintains multiple student-accessible computer labs with more than 150 computers. A 30-seat lab is located in Funderburg Library, two 25-seat labs in the Academic Center, and Science Center houses a 16-seat lab. Each of the five residence halls contains a computer lab. In addition to these main labs, some academic departments have computer equipment. Lab hours are generally posted. Public labs contain computers running Windows 7. Software applications installed on the machines include Microsoft Office 2013 (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, Project, and Expression Web) and several academic packages. Comprehensive wireless connectivity is available in the Academic Center, Clark Computer Center, Funderburg Library, the Science Center, the Union, and the residence halls. Most other buildings and some outdoor locations also have wireless access.
Human Performance Laboratory The Human Performance Laboratory, located in the Physical Education and Recreation Center, houses the laboratory areas for human biomechanics, exercise physiology and athletic training courses. Laboratory equipment includes a state-of-the-art isokinetic dynamometer for quantifying muscle function, oxygen analyzer, motorized treadmill, and cycle ergometer.
Natural Sciences Laboratories The Science Center contains laboratories for biology, chemistry, physics and computer science. Located on the first floor are laboratories for computer science, physics, electronics, electricity/magnetism/optics, modern physics and physics research. An atomic force microscope allows imaging of atomic-level phenomena.
Biology laboratories are located on the second floor. These laboratories are for molecular biology, physiology and morphology, ecology and biodiversity, and microbiology. Molecular biology facilities include a DNA sequencer and a polymerase chain reaction thermocycler, and real-time polymerase chain reaction cycler. Additionally, three research laboratories and a special support room containing walk-in warm and cold rooms are located on the second floor. The greenhouse is located near the third floor of the atrium.
Third-floor laboratories are for analytical, organic and physical chemistry, and biochemistry. Four chemistry research laboratories and two instrumental support rooms including a separate nuclear magnetic resonance laboratory are also located on the third floor.
A recently acquired atomic force microscope allows imaging of atomic-level phenomena.
Athletic Fields The Kenapocomoco Athletic Fields are located on the east side of campus. The Carl W. Burt Field provides football facilities along the Eel River.* The stadium was named in honor of Burt, a coach and teacher from 1925 to 1942. The baseball team plays on Gratz Field, named in honor of Jim Gratz, a coach and teacher from 1962 to 1987. The University also maintains a softball field, soccer field, six tennis courts, an outdoor track and a cross country course along with numerous intramural athletic spaces.
Calvin Ulrey Hall. Once a residence hall, this building now houses the Student Activities office on the lower floor. The Office of Health and Counseling Services and the Center for Service Opportunities are located on the first floor. The offices of Student Experience, Human Resources and Residential Life are located on the second floor. Business Application Services offices are located on the third floor.
Charles S. Morris Observatory The observatory was built in 1973. A 14½-foot motorized dome and a 10-inch Newtonian reflector telescope are located in the dome building. The adjacent laboratory building includes a darkroom facility and other telescopes. Funds to build the observatory were provided by the family, friends and former students of Dr. Charles S. Morris, distinguished physics professor at Manchester University for 36 years.
Cordier Auditorium This auditorium was named for Dr. Andrew W. Cordier, a 1922 graduate of Manchester and former distinguished professor. Dr. Cordier also was a scholar, diplomat, conciliator, negotiator and administrator. Cordier Auditorium was completed in spring 1978. This spacious building seats 1,300 people continental style. A three-manual, 45-rank pipe organ was installed in 1981, funded in part by a generous gift from William H. and Miriam Waybright '39 Cable. Dressing rooms, stage preparation, storage areas and fly loft are provided in this facility. A large dividable meeting room is available on the lower level.
Jo Young Switzer Center The Jo Young Switzer Center houses student dining, the Campus Store, The Oaks snack bar, an art gallery, the Success Center, and the offices of career and professional development, and conference services. The facility also includes meeting and conference rooms available to faculty, students and guests.
Koinonia Environmental and Retreat Center Located 12 miles north of the campus, this 100-acre nature reserve includes a 5-acre lake and wetland complex, restored prairie, woods and a mineral resources trail created by Indiana Mineral Aggregates Association. A two-story building on the property houses the nature center, biological field station and retreat center. Class and seminar rooms, environmental laboratories, food preparation and overnight housing facilities are also part of the building. The original 80 acres was given to Manchester University in 1974. An adjacent 20 acres was added in 1992 as a gift from Ortho '50 and Dr. Ruth Mangon '50 Holland.
Manchester University Intercultural Center The Intercultural Center located on College Avenue across from the Administration Building houses the Office of Multicultural Affairs and offers a place for all students, particularly students of color and international students, to meet, socialize and study in a comfortable, home-like environment. The lower level of the Center includes a reception area, lounge, kitchen and the Multicultural Affairs Programmer's office. The upper level contains the office of the director of intercultural services, and the Intercultural Library - a growing collection of books, magazines, CDs and videos. These materials are available for check out to the general University community. The upper level also houses a computer lab and a conference/ multipurpose room. The Center is overseen by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and is open until 10 p.m. each day throughout the academic year.
Neher Maintenance Center This building was named for Oscar W. Neher, a valued member of the Manchester University community from 1932 until his death in 1976. Mr. Neher was a teacher of biology until 1954 when, upon retirement, he joined the maintenance department, first as its administrator and later as a skilled cabinet maker. Maintenance administration offices are located there, as are several workshops.
Peace House The Gladdys Muir Peace Garden, located on Wayne Street at the entrance to the University, was completed in 2001. It was built to acknowledge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University's distinguished peace studies program and recognize it as the first of its kind in the nation. The peace garden is a place for quiet reflection and the refurbished small cottage is a "meeting house."
Petersime Chapel As a gift from the Ray M. Petersime family of Gettysburg, Ohio, this chapel, cruciform in shape, is the focal center on the south end of the campus quadrangle. The sanctuary seats up to 70 and has a six-rank pipe organ. Faith, higher education, and their relationship are illustrated in 30 stained glass windows. The structure also houses a meditation room, prayer rooms for individuals, conference room and lounge for groups, and offices for the campus ministry staff.
Power House The central heating plant, constructed in 1967, furnishes heat for all the buildings on campus.
University Chime A long-standing tradition at Manchester University is the ringing of the chime each morning and evening while school is in session. The 10-bell chime, a gift of friends and alumni of the University, is located in the tower of the Administration Building.
*The Eel River is better known to Manchester University students as the Kenapocomoco because of Native American history associated with it and brought to light by the research and publicity of a former Manchester president, Dr. Otho Winger.


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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early 20th century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
[edit]- When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.
- "Bacon", in Baseless Biography (1939), p. 6.
Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)
[edit]- The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.
- Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's."
- John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote "Principles of Political Economy."
- What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.
- Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
- Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.
- It was a weakness of Voltaire's
To forget to say his prayers,
And one which to his shame
He never overcame.
Trent's Last Case (1912)
[edit]- Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
When the scheming, indomitable brain of Sigsbee Manderson was scattered by a shot from an unknown hand, that world lost nothing worth a single tear; it gained something memorable in a harsh reminder of the vanity of such wealth as this dead man had piled up—without making one loyal friend to mourn him, without doing an act that could help his memory to the least honor. But when the news of his end came, it seemed to those living in the great vortices of business as if the earth, too, shuddered under a blow.- Chapter I: "Bad News"
- 'Many young women of twenty-six in these days could face such an ordeal, I suppose. I have observed a sort of imitative hardness about the products of the higher education of women today which would carry them through anything, perhaps. I am not prepared to say it is a bad thing in the conditions of feminine life prevailing at present. Mabel, however, is not like that. She is as unlike that as she is unlike the simpering misses that used to surround me as a child. She has plenty of brains; she is full of character; her mind and her tastes are cultivated; but it is all mixed up' — Mr Cupples waved his hands in a vague gesture — 'with ideals of refinement and reservation and womanly mystery. I fear she is not a child of the age.'
- Chapter III: "Breakfast"
- 'What do you mean by "a man like me"?' he [Philip Trent] demanded with a sort of fierceness. 'Do you take me for a man without any normal instincts? I don't say you impress people as a simple, transparent sort of character — what Mr Calvin Bunner calls a case of openwork; I don't say a stranger might not think you capable of wickedness, if there was good evidence for it: but I say that a man who, after seeing you and being in your atmosphere, could associate you with the kind of abomination I imagined is a fool — the kind of fool who is afraid to trust his senses.'
- Chapter XIII: "Eruption"
- She [Mabel Manderson] uttered a little laugh of impatience. 'So you think he has been talking me round. No, that is not so. I am merely sure he did not do it. Ah! I see you think that absurd. But see how unreasonable you are, Mr Trent! Just now you were explaining to me quite sincerely that it was foolishness in you to have a certain suspicion of me after seeing me and being in my atmosphere, as you said.' Trent started in his chair. She glanced at him and went on: 'Now, I and my atmosphere are much obliged to you, but we must stand up for the rights of other atmospheres. I know a great deal more about Mr Marlowe's atmosphere than you know about mine even now. I saw him constantly for several years. I don't pretend to know all about him; but I do know that he is incapable of a crime of bloodshed. The idea of his planning a murder is as unthinkable to me as the idea of your picking a poor woman's pocket, Mr Trent.'
- Chapter XIII: "Eruption"
- Can you understand the soul of a man who never hesitated to take steps that would have the effect of hoodwinking people, who would use every trick of the markets to mislead, and who was at the same time scrupulous never to utter a direct lie on the most insignificant matter? Manderson was like that, and he was not the only one. I suppose you might compare the state of mind to that of a soldier who is personally a truthful man, but who will stick at nothing to deceive the enemy. The rules of the game allow it; and the same may be said of business as many business men regard it. Only with them it is always wartime.
- Chapter XV: "Double Cunning"
- I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity and also infernal nonsense, is oddly enough bad Positivism too, unless I misunderstand that system.
- Chapter XVI: "The Last Straw"
Clerihews: More Biography (1929)
[edit]- George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.
- Chapman & Hall
Swore not at all.
Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
And Mr Hall's nay was nay.
Trent's Own Case (1936)
[edit]- Written in collaboration with H. Warner Allen
- There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.
- Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
- That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
- Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
- As he went through the half-darkness of the lamp-lit streets, deserted almost entirely at this hour, he brooded over his hard luck. What chance had he ever been given? Raught, for that matter, like many another in case like his, was far from grasping fully how bad his luck had been, how little the chance that life had offered. Neglect and harshness had marked him in infancy; there had been nothing at any time to tell against the effect of them. But in all of the past that he remembered and could understand there had been more than enough to be stored up as matter for savage resentment, for the soul-sick criminal's conviction that he owes the world no more than such repayment as he can make in its own coin.
- Chapter XVII: "Fine Body of Men"
- He was less afraid of gentlemen than of most other kinds of men; for instinct told him that, however detestable a gentleman's personal character might be, he was usually not inclined to be censorious or even inquisitive about the conduct of his fellow-creatures.
- Chapter XVII: "Fine Body of Men"
- I know, if anyone does — all research workers know — how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.
- Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
[edit]- Short story collection
- And as for that low, velvety voice of hers, if she asked me to murder my best friend I should have to do it on the spot.
- 3. "The Clever Cockatoo"
- You may as well know, Philip — you'll soon find out, anyhow — the truth is she will flirt with any man that she doesn't actively dislike. She's so brimful of life she can't hold herself in — or she won't, rather; she says there's no harm in it, and she doesn't care if there is. Before her marriage she didn't go on in that way, but since it turned out badly she has been simply uncivilized on that point. And her being perfectly clear-headed about it makes it so much worse.
- 3. "The Clever Cockatoo"
- Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?
- 7. "The Old-fashioned Apache"
- Lord Southrop was, of course, eccentric in his views; and you never knew — here the housekeeper, with a despondent head-shake, paused, leaving unspoken the suggestion that a man who did not think or behave like other people might go mad at any moment.
- 11. "The Unknown Peer"
- [S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.
- 12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
- Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
- 12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Quotes about Bentley
[edit]- I recur here to my personal point about the tendency to miss what the title means; or even what the title says. An article like this is called subjective because it has no subject. In a rambling column, whether because it is personal or impersonal, it is permissible to introduce personal trifles about oneself, as well as about other people, so long as it is made sufficiently obvious that they are trifling. And I may remark in this connexion, or disconnexion, that I happen to have a very strong objection to that trick of missing the point of a story, or sometimes even the obvious sense of the very name of a story. I have sometimes had occasion to murmur meekly that those who endure the heavy labour of reading a book might possibly endure that of reading the title-page of a book. For there are more examples than may be imagined, in which earnest critics might solve many of their problems about what a book is, merely by discovering what it professes to be. … It is odd that one example occurred in my own case... in a book called The Man Who was Thursday.
- G. K. Chesterton, in "Trent's Last Case—Again" a review of Trent's Own Case, in Illustrated London News (13 June 1936)
External links
[edit]- Works by Edmund Clerihew Bentley at Project Gutenberg
- Illustrated Bibliography of 1st Editions
- A web page about Bentley, with some clerihews and some biographical information on Bentley himself


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