Word: asking
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...meaningful things in college, and in life, are not the many things one tries, but the few things one chooses. If you are just starting college, or even if you aren't, don't let your vision be clouded by the piles of posters and hundreds of new faces. Ask yourself what you really want, take your time, hesitate before committing yourself to too many people or too many things, and don't be afraid to say no when you make a choice. Then, when you schlep the box with your Freshman Facebook in it out of your room...
Epps says a House-wide survey would askstudents whether they feel randomization hasachieved integration of different communities ofthe College within the Houses. Sheats says anysurvey should ask students whether there is a needfor "supportive communities of color" within theHouses...
...predicament of America's average students illustrates the need for a set of "national standards that would articulate what all of our kids need to know." But the first step may be even simpler--as simple as challenging average kids as much as we do the brightest students. Just ask Meghan Malone, a high-achieving, freckle-faced Des Moines ninth-grader. "When you expect all kids to be smart," she says, walking out of her honors English class, "they will be." It may not be that easy, but it would be a start...
...first, on Sept. 19, he will make the holy trek. He will seek salvation in Las Vegas. The fallen former heavyweight champ is scheduled to ask the Nevada Athletic Commission to reinstate his boxing license. It's the fight of his life, not counting his 1992 rape conviction, and if a random sampling of gamblers is any indication, he's going to win. Henry Beste, 41, an actor who lives here, explained it in two words: "It's Vegas...
...joys of being hoary of head is that you can speak frankly without grounding your career. So when Vanity Fair hunted down some ex-astronauts to ask what they thought of John Glenn's jaunt into the great blue yonder, they were none too starry-eyed. "John Glenn a payload specialist? That's bulls____," said FRANK BORMAN, second from left. "NASA could get better data monitoring him for 10 days in bed." WALLY SCHIRRA, far left, was similarly wry. "I can think of several more Senators we should boost into space." Even JIM LOVELL, second from right, next...