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Another worry is that societal acceptance will turn into coercion, particularly in a cutthroat, winner-take-all environment. Jessie Klein, an assistant professor of sociology at Adelphi University, says she believes students give in to the pressure to take drugs just to keep up. "It makes more sense to me to transform this pernicious culture rather than discuss whether students should be able to legally take drugs to compete," she says, adding that when minority students take drugs, people call for get-tough policies and crackdowns, but when wealthy, white Ivy Leaguers do it, the discussion shifts to reducing...
...Kozlowski was arguably the most high-profile executive crook of this millennium, but he had plenty of company, in crime and punishment. The top players at Adelphi Communications and Worldcom were also convicted of fraud, and saddled with imprisonments from 15 to 25 years. These sentences are certainly not insignificant. Yet, when you factor in the possibility for parole, the fates of these criminals seems less bleak—especially in light of their Chinese counterpart...
...just buy pizza? (Donors can have checks sent to the tuition office rather than directly to the student.) And won't it encourage students to obsess even more about grades? Kopko isn't worried. "So far, the closest thing I've gotten to a critique was an administrator at Adelphi University who posed the question, "Might this increase the incentives for cheating?'" he says. "I think the incentive's always there. GradeFund won't change that...
Anyone wanting to catch a performance of Chicago could head for the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End to watch bit-part TV actors gyrate their way through a slick, big-budget production. Or they could travel 40 minutes out of the city to Ashford, for a performance that's a little more intimate and a lot more surreal. Both shows aim for razzle-dazzle: bright lights, flashy costumes, sassy song-and-dance numbers. But only one of them has mandatory fingerprinting at the door, beefy guards keeping watch by the wings and five-centimeter-thick bars...
DENNIS R. HIDALGO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY ADELPHI UNIVERSITY Garden City...