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...admit it. I pity rising Winthrop seniors. The prospect of sharing one cot that rolls out of a basement custodial closet with four blockmates isn’t pleasant. But n-6 housing doesn’t mean we should give transfers...
...schools are getting safer, that fewer than 1% of teen gun-related deaths occur in schools--it's because many of us float our children off to school in a bubble, grateful to live in a wholesome town--"We are America," Santee Mayor Randy Voepel declared--and unwilling to admit that the danger could follow us no matter where...
...important respects, an education in physics is founded on the use of the Bunsen burner. Concentrators learn a great deal from the heating experience and contact between the open flame and the experimental materials, complementing the experience of problem sets and other laboratory work. Harvard does not admit physics undergraduates without the understanding that Bunsen burners will be an integral aspect of their education...
There aren't too many politicians in America who would dare admit they once frequented a strip club. Fewer still would cop to dating one of the dancers, especially if she had a nickname like the "Flame of Florida," or a habit of packing a switchblade in her purse. And among that select crowd, there are barely any who call themselves conservative Republicans, or would ever dare dream of running for President...
Like Harvard, which announced a record low admissions rate of 7.1 percent on Monday, other prestigious colleges saw more competitive admissions processes this year than in the past. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale were among the schools that had their lowest admit rate on record this year. Yale admitted 1,892 of its 22,813 applicants—a rate of 8.3 percent, down from 9.5 percent for the class of 2011. Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other...