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Lawrence Biemiller visits America's college towns.

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By Lawrence Biemiller February 28, 2011
Women who are college presidents, says one of them, “came up through a system that saw you as talented and ambitious, and didn’t understand why you would want to be that way.”
By Lawrence Biemiller February 20, 2011
As the cafe’s cook and kitchen manager, Zenia Gutiérrez is fast becoming one of the most important people on Pitzer College’s campus.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 17, 2011
The university plans to tear down its most visible icon and replace it with something that will be safer in earthquakes and easier to maintain.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 16, 2011
The nude Prometheus is stretching skyward in his perpetual agony, and he is, you might say, all crotch and no glory.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 15, 2011
West Hall is why Harvey Mudd College has a rule that flames can’t rise higher than the tops of buildings.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 14, 2011
The men’s basketball team at the California Institute of Technology last won a game in its conference in 1985.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 11, 2011
At a Boys & Girls Club, Whittier College students help struggling students read and write using computer games.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 10, 2011
The president of Pitzer College shares a story about an ailing bird in the campus chicken coop.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 9, 2011
A columbarium—a resting place for the ashes of the deceased—is tucked away at the back of Chapman University’s Fish Interfaith Center.
By Lawrence Biemiller February 8, 2011
The library at this college, named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, has become a storehouse of memorabilia for its alumnus Richard Nixon.
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