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What your look says about you
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Expert research has found that your makeup and mane effects can have an impact on how others perceive you. The fab thing about this: You can work it to your advantage. Read on to find the beauty signals that will send others the message you want.
First Impressions
"We make an assumption about someone within 10 seconds of being introduced," says Oregon State social psychologist Frank Bernieri, Ph.D. "This impression is largely based on his or her looks -- and doesn't change very easily."
Confident and Powerful
The look: "Makeup and hair messages that indicate maturity make you come across as secure," says Bernieri. Prominent brows, bold lips and hair that's pulled off the face look adult and suggest self-assurance."
How to get it: Make your brows stand out more by filling them in with a pencil, says makeup artist Tracy Crystal, who created the effects on these pages. We like Stila Browset Pencil, $14. Then apply a vibrant deep berry lipstick. We like American Beauty Luxury for Lips in Sweetart, $12.50. And go for a simple half-up hairstyle so your facial features are extra noticeable, says Redken hairstylist Rick Gradone, who whipped up these looks.
Ideal occasions: When you want to really intrigue a guy or land your dream gig
Friendly and Approachable
The look: Certain physical cues invite people into your orbit. "Anything that mimics a childlike appearance -- such as wide eyes, rosy cheeks, plump pink lips and shiny, tousled hair -- makes a person seem accessible," says Caroline Keating, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Colgate University.
How to get it: Sweep on a sparkly champagne shadow to make your orbs appear XXL, says Crystal. Try Bobbi Brown Shimmer Wash Eye Shadow in Champagne, $19. Apply a rosy-peachy cream blush to cheeks. Then produce a pillowy pout with sheer pink gloss. We like Estée Lauder Pure Color Gloss in Pink Sugar, $20. For touchable tresses, use a large-barrel curling iron to get soft, loose waves, suggests Gradone.
Ideal occasions: When you want to meet a new man or just socialize up a storm
Classic and Sophisticated
The look: Women who desire an elegant air (think Gwyneth Paltrow) want to come off as calm, cool and collected. To match that polished personality message, they often go for an understated, well-proportioned effect. Aim for toned-down, balanced makeup and hair cues, says Bernieri. "No single feature should overpower another."
How to get it: An urbane babe always looks flawless, so use base to even out your skin. Try Cover-Girl Advanced Radiance Compact Foundation, $10. "On the rest of your face, stick to subdued colors," says Crystal. Tresses should be sleek. Run smoothing cream through them before blow-drying and flat-ironing, recommends Gradone. We love Kiehl's Silk Straightening Cream, $14.
Ideal occasions: When you're invited to dinner with his parents or hitting a fancy soiree
Wild and Ready to Party
The look: The perfect good-time-girl appears fun and flirtatious but also a bit intimidating. "Her look is provocative because it both invites and deflects approach," explains Keating. "For example, when come-hither curls are paired with dark, dominant, daring eyes, these mixed signals may exude an attractive coyness."
How to get it: Crystal suggests a deep purple smoky eye, with several coats of black mascara, natch. A fab lash enhancer: Lancôme L'Extréme, $22. To avoid overkill, stick with a nude lip gloss and minimal blush. Go for wild yet touchable spirals. Scrunch a curl enhancer onto damp strands and blow-dry with a diffuser, says Gradone. We love Pantene Pro-V Curls Defining Comb-in Treatment, $4.
Ideal occasions: When you want to be the life of the party or seduce a guy without saying a word |
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Israel Week
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| Dan Monk, George W. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace Studies and Professor of Art & Art History, and guest Dan Rabinowitz discussed their Israel Week panel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and peace in the Middle East during the Hour CNY program on the Syracuse-area public television station. |
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Israel Week
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Bolt, Chris
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| Dan Monk, George W. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace Studies and Professor of Art & Art History, and guest Dan Rabinowitz discussed their Israel Week panel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and peace in the Middle East during an afternoon news broadcast on the Syracuse-area NPR radio affiliate. |
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Energy-saving tips
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Smailes, Laura
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| Physics professor Beth Parks discussed some energy-saving tips on a Columbus, Ohio-based morning radio show. |
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Shock of the Noongar
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Hoy, Anthony
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Badly fed and poorly clothed, the Aboriginal children at the government-operated Carrolup River Native Settlement near Katanning, south-west WA, were schooled by day and locked away in primitive tin sheds at night. They were the mixed-race progeny of what the government's Chief Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville, had described as "a derelict, dispossessed people."
"The native must be helped in spite of himself," had been Neville's edict. From 1915 to 1940 he enthusiastically directed the government policy of forcibly removing these waifs from family and tradition among the Noongar people of WA, and trying to assimilate them into white society via camps such as Carrolup.
But Neville and his followers hadn't counted on the Carrolup children's remarkable resilience. In the years following World War II they managed to affirm their cultural identity by painting with pastels and charcoal on cheap education department paper.
Their paintings - which first came to public attention in a department store exhibition at Katanning in 1947 - became known as "little black fingers" pictures because of the sooty fingermarks left on the paper by children working by candlelight. A chance reading of a magazine article about the exhibition led an English benefactor, Florence Rutter, to arrange an international tour.
In her 1952 book Child Artists of the Australian Bush, Rutter wrote of "badly fed, badly housed children, belonging to a so-called backward race, who inexplicably produced beauty in the midst of squalor, and who displayed amazing artistic talent." Her idea was that the proceeds of sale of the works should be returned to Carrolup to fund more art materials.
In Britain, the Illustrated London News noted in 1950: "The young artists have remarkable powers of observation and a great feeling for composition and atmosphere."
But in 1951 the government closed Carrolup because of what the curator of the University of WA's Berndt Museum of Anthropology, John Stanton, calls "jealousy on the part of native affairs officials."
The Carrolup works disappeared from public view. A few found their way into the British Museum. Others ended up in private collections overseas. Those returned to Australia were housed at the Berndt Museum.
Then, in April last year, Howard Morphy, director of the ANU's Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, made an astonishing discovery. While visiting New York's Colgate University, he stumbled across 65 of the Carrolup works in a box labelled "Australian drawings." Staff at the university's Picker Gallery located another 48 drawings earlier this year.
They had been in archival limbo since being donated to the university in 1966 by American businessman and Colgate graduate Herbert A. Mayer, who had purchased more than 100 of the pictures in London for his private collection.
The works reveal a highly original interpretation of the children's rural environment, drawing on native animals and Aboriginal ceremonial lore for inspiration. Luminously coloured forest and fauna were drawn in a style that mingled European and indigenous elements. It was, says Stanton, a starting point for contemporary indigenous art production in the post-war era.
Picker director Elizabeth Barker is in no doubt about their artistic importance. "We need to celebrate these as works of art and not merely as historical tokens of a painful moment. They do stand alone." Several of the pictures now hang in her gallery alongside modern masters such as Paul Klee and artists of the Italian Renaissance.
The Picker and Berndt collections will be displayed at Mungart Boodja Art Centre in Katanning, WA, from February 12 to March 10, 2006, as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. |
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Colgate president invited to annual media dinner
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Colgate University president Rebecca Chopp will be among nearly a dozen college leaders at an annual national news media dinner Tuesday in New York City. The college presidents and chancellors will join several dozen members of the national press corps to discuss the state of higher education and challenges that colleges and universities face.
Other colleges that will be represented include: Barnard, Dartmouth, Smith and Amherst colleges, Columbia and Vanderbilt University, and the universities of Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania and Nevada. |
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Colgate's cable guy
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Kollali, Sapna
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Colgate University professor Anthony Aveni had his second brush with cable television fame in two weeks.
On Oct. 23, he appeared in a National Geographic Channel TV show that focused on the pyramids of the Americas that were built more than 2,000 years ago.
On Oct. 31, he was interviewed for an upcoming History Channel series called "Where Did It Come From?" The series will examine modern technologies and trace them to their ancient roots. Aveni will appear in two episodes about the Maya Indians - one on architecture and infrastructure and one on astronomical discoveries and their effect on Mayan culture.
The 13-part documentary series is scheduled to run next year.
Aveni is an astronomy and archaeology professor at Colgate. He is well-known for his research in the astronomical history of the Mayas, according to the university, and is considered one of the founders of Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy. |
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'Israel Week' begins today at Colgate
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Kollali, Sapna
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Israel is a melting pot of Middle Eastern and Western cultures, an attractive mix of old and new, but those selling points often are overshadowed by news of bombings and violence, two Colgate University students said.
"That stuff goes on, I don't want to sugarcoat it, but there is so much more than The New York Times headlines," said Ben Suarato, co-president of the Colgate Jewish Union. "People think Israel is the desert and the old city in Jerusalem and explosions, but it really is an amazing place."
Suarato and co-president Allie Weinreb, both juniors, have organized Colgate's first Israel Week. The event begins today, on the 10th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, according to the Hebrew calendar, said Suarato, a political science and international relations major.
Israel Week programs include a dinner and lectures and are intended to make the community more aware of the decades-old Arab- Israeli conflict and modern Israeli culture. All programs are open to the public.
"We didn't want to just inundate people with the political side of things. We are having a serious program, but we also wanted to do some more fun things," said Weinreb, a peace and conflict studies and Jewish studies major.
She hopes to make it an annual event and attract people from all cultures and religions.
Suarato and Weinreb said today and Tuesday are planned in an Israeli style, with a day of mourning and remembrance followed by a day of joy and celebration.
Nonie Darwish, an Arab raised in Egypt and the Gaza Strip who founded ArabsforIsrael.com, will be the keynote speaker Thursday. Suarato said they wanted an Arab for one of the main events to give the program some balance.
"We don't want it to be "This is why you should support Israel,"' he said. "It's about learning both sides, all sides of the issue."
Friday was the first anniversary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death.
Dan Monk, director of Colgate's peace and conflict studies program, organized today's panel, which features Middle East scholars from several American and Israeli universities. He said it is important to bring peace prospects to the forefront because it will affect the futures of current college students.
"Our country decided not to deal with the Middle East in the beginning of this U.S. administration's first term, and so the Middle East visited us," he said. "This is not an issue that can be sidestepped, especially with the war in Iraq. We're involved in the region for the foreseeable future."
All week, organizers will have information tables set up in the student center with facts about Israel. They also will be selling bracelets and T-shirts for Save a Child's Heart, an Israeli-based charity that provides heart surgery for children of all nationalities and faiths. |
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Big Man on Campuses
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STEVE LAKE MAY HAVE only a bachelor of arts degree from Concordia University and a hotel administration degree from a community college in Las Vegas, but he has been to 324 universities. For the past two decades, the 55-year-old, who was born and raised in Montreal, has majored in Visiting Campuses. "My ultimate goal is to visit 500," he says over the phone from Las Vegas, where he works as a pit boss at Caesars Palace. "I only visit the colleges and universities that have four-year programs. Last year, I went to 55 colleges. Out of those 55, I visited 40 in one week."
He began his "hobby" in 1984, when he went to Boston on his honeymoon. "We were driving in the New England states, and I thought, 'Hey, we're near Harvard. Why don't we check it out?' Then we were close to Dartmouth, so we went, and then we were close to Brown, so we went. It just spurred me on. There are so many beautiful schools, especially the Ivy League ones."
It's heartwarming, he says, watching students walking around campus, or lying on the grass studying. Lake missed out on the "beautiful campus" experience. "When I went to Concordia there wasn't even an inch of grass. It was like one big office building. We took escalators from one class to another." After word of his college collecting got out, the Concordia alumni magazine profiled him. "I didn't mention that I wasn't exactly enamoured with the school," he says.
In his first year at Concordia, Lake spent more time playing gin rummy than studying. "I was pretty good at it," he says. "But I didn't do well in school. My mother moved to L.A. in my second year, and so I went to school there, and did two years in one because I was so mad at myself for screwing up first year. I reapplied to Concordia for my third year and graduated."
Ever since he was a teenager, Lake had been captivated with Vegas. But after moving to Sin City when he graduated, he lost all interest in gambling. He had other aspirations. Before deciding to visit 500 campuses, he set out to see a ball game at every major-league ballpark. By 1997, he'd managed to do just that, "but every year now a new park is built somewhere so I'm seven ballparks behind." He's also visited every state capital. "When I was a child, my dad used to test me on all the state capitals and presidents," he says. "That's why I did that." Lake also wanted to become a life master in bridge. Done. In 1980. "I'm always shooting for something."
But it's visiting campuses that has really taken over his free time. Where he used to plan his trips to universities around his vacations, he now plans vacations around universities he wants to see. Lake's travel companion is his wife, whom he met when he was working as a pit boss at the former Dunes Hotel in Vegas (now the Bellagio). She was working at the front desk. "We knew each other casually for four years and then I asked her out. After the first date, that was it. We've been married for 21 years." He says his wife is a "good sport" when it comes to his pastime. "She's been to about 100 campuses with me. In Pennsylvania, I visited 40 colleges in one day. She didn't come along for that. It's not fun for her to have to get up at 7 a.m. and run from place to place."
Armed with the guidebook Peterson's Four-Year Colleges (he checks off the ones he's been to), Lake doesn't have a set plan for his campus visits. "I'll look at the architecture. I'll go to the bookstore and buy a notebook or T-shirt. I have about 50 T-shirts now. I pick up the student newspaper. If it's lunchtime, I'll eat in the cafeteria." (The best meal he's had was a lasagna dish at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Penn.)
Sometimes he'll sit in on a class. He happened to be at the College of Charleston in South Carolina during a graduation ceremony, which he attended. At the University of Delaware in Newark, he walked into an empty classroom, picked up a piece of chalk and wrote on the blackboard: "Steve Lake was here. This is my 305th campus."
"I'm kind of like Woody Allen. I just appear out of no-where," he says.
Visiting schools is not about reliving his youth. "The funny thing is, now when I walk into a school, I'm occasionally mistaken for a professor."
Lake has visited about 25 campuses in Canada -- his favourite, beauty-wise, being Acadia in Nova Scotia. He also liked Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. "It used to be called University College of the Cariboo. Isn't that fascinating?" In the U.S., he finds Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., to be the most stunning campus.
"I might not call it quits at 500," he says. "But it may become less of a priority." No worries -- Lake has a minor: zoos. So far, he's been to about 27 of them. "I'm definitely going to start keeping tabs on that next." |
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