On the steps of Roth Hall, the school's mammoth main building, two students dressed in starched white jackets and stiff pleated toques took a cigarette break.
Since the trip the Everglades, Ms. Pyatt has also taken groups of students to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and Acadia National Park in Maine.
By this logic, it should come as no surprise that the biggest cheating scandal this year would erupt at the University of Central Florida, a mammoth school with 56,000 students -- many of whom live off campus, attend huge classes, and are pursuing utilitarian degrees in fields like business and hospitality.
Last night at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, a dozen faculty members and students gathered for a "mammoth barbecue" before the U.S. Public Broadcasting System's NOVA program laid out the story of the provocative--and highly controversial--proposal that a huge impact drove the mammoths and dozens of other large North American animals to extinction 12,900 years ago.
The discovery of prehistoric mammoth remains in Oklahoma has made students at the state university very excited, while pipeline workers were left stunned.
Online education providers may very well disrupt the higher-education establishment, but first, these for-profit companies need to find a way to finance the mammoth technical infrastructure needed to support millions of students.
And it's not only students who have fallen under the mammoth's spell.
A well-directed student should have no problem navigating through the mammoth collections, but others may be confused.
DETROIT — As a young law student and electrician apprentice at the Ford Motor Company's mammoth Rouge factory complex, Bob King won support from co-workers who agreed with his radical viewpoints.
While he was at it, he conducted the student orchestra in the first ever British performance of his mammoth Seventh Symphony (actually more of a thundering Old Testament oratorio) the Seven Gates of Jerusalem.
