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Transportation costs are a massive burden on many student groups, and are often the limiting factor in determining in which activities students can participate. This additional funding not only will allow groups to engage with communities outside of Harvard, but will also serve a subsidy-like purpose in enabling undergraduates without money to spare to travel with their student groups...
...move, which in lieu of the traditional system of letter grades will allow four levels of assessment—honors pass, pass, low pass, and fail—is intended, according to Kagan's e-mail, to "promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community...
...grading system and curriculum allow a level of flexibility and freedom that is unparalleled," reads the testimony of one Yale student on the school's Web site. "Yale allows you to make your education truly yours without worrying about grade competition...
...especially active in the brain's emotional center - the limbic system. This creates a "tinderbox of emotions," says Dr. Ronald Dahl, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh. Not only do feelings reach a flash point more easily, but adolescents tend to seek out situations where they can allow their emotions and passions to run wild. "Adolescents are actively looking for experiences to create intense feelings," says Dahl. "It's a very important hint that there is some particular hormone-brain relationship contributing to the appetite for thrills, strong sensations and excitement." This thrill seeking may have evolved to promote...
...ways around the time of puberty," says Temple University psychologist Laurence Steinberg. "But the parts for exercising judgment are still maturing throughout the course of adolescence. So you've got this time gap between when things impel kids toward taking risks early in adolescence, and when things that allow people to think before they act come online. It's like turning on the engine of a car without a skilled driver at the wheel...