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UC Berkeley Takeover

Students barricaded themselves inside the English Department at Wheeler Hall. The UC... more

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Students Shut Down UCLA

Yesterday and today, thousands of students effectively shut down the UCLA campus in... more

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Man raises son to speak only Klingon

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Near Riots At UCLA Over Proposed Tuition Hike

Cop tasers student with yellow taser. Other cop swings baton at students.

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School Junior inspires student body with "Face AIDS" presentation

"The fight for health as a human right, a fight with real promise, has so far been plagued by failures. Failure because we are chronically short of resources. Failure because we are too often at the mercy of those with the power and money to decide the fates of hundreds of millions. Failure because ill health, as we have learned again and again, is more often than not a symptom of poverty and violence and inequality." In a recent "This I believe" archive Dr. Paul Farmer one of the founders of Partners in Health spoke to the notion that, health care should be a human right. Paul is a man that has the potential to make millions of dollars a year, and yet he has chosen, a modest life traveling the world ensuring that people receive health care. He does all of this not for money but, simply because he is passionate about it.

This is what really drew me to Partners in Health, and through them, the FACE AIDS cause. Trying to make a positive contribution in the world seems overwhelming, yes the saying "one person can make a difference" is uplifting but how can we as students in Colorado help make that difference? I was talking to teacher Amanda Leahy today expressing how I felt that CRMS represented a world of its own, there is diversity in ethnicity, race, culture, and economic status, each person here has different strengths and weaknesses that they bring everyday. Through our experiences with school trips, work crew, and active we have the opportunity to discover our own strenghths and weaknesses. We learn to trust one another, and most importantly help one another. Wouldn't it be great to take the lessons we learn through helping and apply it to the world at large.

During the past week it has been really amazing to hear all the stories that have evolved from our Cake Walk fundraiser. Operation Smile not only raised money to help those less fortunate but, has also created many memorable moments with family's and friends at CRMS. Teacerh Kayo Ogilby shared his daughter's excitement while making a princess cake, and the Head of School Leahy house was filled with fun and memories as they made a cake together for this charitable cause. Experiences like these are what truly inspire us. I think often times we gain more then we ever imagined by simply giving what we can.

Find what you are passionate about and dedicate yourself to the cause. CRMS offers a wide range of ways to help and give back: Work crews, Face Aids, Operation Smile, Peace Jam, Random Acts of Kindness club. Possibly these organizations are not what inspire you. Sometimes what stirs your passion doesn't have a preexisting structure, sometimes you have to be the one to begin. When you find a cause that touches you it becomes easy to dedicate yourself to it. Dr. Paul Farmer does not do what he does for recognition, he simply does it because it is the right thing to do. By joining something bigger then yourself it gives you a sense of purpose, a sense that you can make a difference.

With the coming holiday season and the holiday spirit in the air, with a seemingly endless supply of food and gifts it can become easy to forget just how fortunate we are. It can be a time when we take our good fortune for granite or.... we can use the holiday spirit to appreciate what we have,..... and share it with others.

A Haitian proverb says "Beyond mountains there are mountains." In other words as you solve one problem another one often presents itself, one of the great things about CRMS is they shine a light on a lot of the world's problems and give us the tools to problem solve. Before we leave tonight I encourage all of us to take a couple of moments to reflect on a problem that you are passionate about, and think of ways that you can help that cause. -- Katie Grant, 11th grade, Colorado Rocky Mountain School presentation to the entire student body at an evening program

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The Future of Education in the US

While traditional universities struggle with soaring costs and declining endowments,... more

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10 classical recordings to start your kid with

When we start children out on reading, we don't hand them a copy of "Moby Dick" or "Finnegan's Wake" and say, OK, dive in. No, we start with picture books, with simple texts in monosyllables, with stories about other children and animals. We start by reading to them, and with them. We show them how.

A lot of the great masterpieces of classical music are the equivalent in depth and difficulty to "Moby Dick" and "Finnegan's Wake." So, we don't want to start there. We want to start out with short, mostly simple pieces and we want to listen with them.

Kids need two things, more or less, in a piece of classical music. They need a regular beat or they need some sort of story or picture (in the mind's eye) to go along with the music. (They don't need both in every piece.) The regular beats appear mostly in dance, or dance-like, pieces, such as "The Nutcracker Suite" or much of Baroque music. The stories or pictures appear in programmatic works such as "The Flight of the Bumblebee" or "The Carnival of the Animals."

Make it a regular habit to listen with your child, just as you did (or were supposed to) when they started out reading. When my own son was still in diapers, we'd have a short listening session every night just before his reading and bedtime. We'd play a lot of the same things night after night, but pretty soon he had a fairly big repertoire. And you'd be surprised what worked. I still remember him rocking up and down in front of the speakers to Schubert's song "Das Wandern" (from "Die schöne Müllerin") as sung, in German, by the incomparable Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But then again, it has a powerful, regular beat.

So, establish a listening time. Then listen. That is, don't chat, or watch television, or read, or eat dinner. Give your full attention to the music. Sure, have fun, dance around, conduct the orchestra, crash cymbals or beat on drums. But make the music the thing, the only thing.

10 classical recordings to start your kid with:

1. Bernstein Favorites "Children's Classics"
2. Listen, Learn And Grow "Playtime Imagination"
3. Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons."
4. Classics From The Crypt
5. Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" Bernstein Century
6. John Philip Sousa : Marches
7. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7
8. Walter Carlos "Switched on Bach"
9. Franz Suppe "Light Cavalry" Overture
10. Carlos Kleiber "New Year's Concert 1992"When we start children out on reading, we don't hand them a copy of "Moby Dick" or... more