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...policy does not assign more weight to any particular criterion, but states that if a tenure candidate falls short of excellence in an area the candidate should demonstrate "excellence in one activity and substantial strength in the other...
...system, the basic axiom of selectivity. Compared with all previous reformers, this year's freshman class could usher in the millennium immediately by unanimously signing a petition which would declare they will not join a club unless Bicker is abolished and the university administration is given unqualified authority to assign sophomores to the various clubs by applying the distribution principle to the applications submitted, just as is one in the case of the Houses and the "colleges" at Harvard and Yale...
Couch attributes surgery-related mishaps to clearly avoidable errors by doctors who were too quick to operate, too confident of their skills and techniques, and too concerned with doing currently fashionable procedures. By contrast, Steel feels it is often impossible to assign blame for complications that occur among general medical patients, and that this is even more true for the many elderly patients with multiple ailments in the study. The complex of diagnostic tests and drugs used makes it difficult to isolate any one cause of trouble. Says Steel: "I don't really know for certain...
Your proposal to revive the draft is outrageously demeaning to women. You assign women the same status as cripples and exempt them altogether from conscription. Women should not be sheltered from the hardships-or deprived of the benefits-of military service. Only when women share equal responsibilities with men will they be treated as equal citizens...
...petrified at the exam because they'll each be prepared to answer at best a third of each question and they'll do miserably. There will be no pattern to the ignorance and grading will be difficult. The professor will be horror-struck and his response will be to assign more readings. A situation like this can often be foreseen by the second week of the term...