Word: accept
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Although straits are not as dire as some students are expecting, career advisers reported an increase in pressure on students to accept offers early, even though universities set mandatory deadlines for employers that push back the date when students have to decide...
First, mimicking Faust’s words about her mother’s statement that “this is a man’s world,” Petersen said, “Well, like President Faust, I too believe in progress and I refuse to accept that this is a ‘faculty and administrator’s world...
...their authority from the fact that all of us have consented to come here to learn and to enter into a system where we don’t make the rules but are expected to follow them. When Ryan Petersen boldly cries out, “I refuse to accept that this is a faculty and administrator’s world!” he rails against a system that he explicitly consented to participate in with the inscrutable immaturity of someone who pays for a guided tour and then refuses to follow the guide’s route...
...Petersen argued that students deserve a greater say in decisions that the University makes, and implied that we are oppressed by the faculty and administration. “I refuse to accept that this is a faculty and administrator’s world,” he said. Harvard students should certainly have a place at the table during the discussion of important decisions, but the final call should always rest with administrators, as does the responsibility of their decisions. The UC does have a voice in decisions made. It passes an innumerable number of resolutions, which state its official...
...candy.With our dining hall lifestyle, it only makes sense that we notice the changes in one of the few foods we actively choose for ourselves. It is a sad state when we eagerly anticipate the shift from pumpkin-shaped dyed sugar to reindeer-shaped dyed sugar, but complacently accept eating hangover chicken breast after hangover chicken breast. DICTATED DIETSAlthough Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has made a commendable effort to integrate local and seasonal foods into our monotonous diets, the proof is not in the pudding. Our dining halls and their all-inclusive meal plans supposedly exist to foster...