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...student-proposed plan that would assign undergraduates to act as informal advisers for freshman is "very close" to gaining official University status, Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said last week...
...plus U.S. sugar farmers whom President Carter's advisers (and, apparently, TIME) are willing to assign to bankruptcy, produce 55% of this country's annual demand for sugar. They provide important protection for U.S. consumers against the instability of supply and wild price gyrations that characterize the world sugar market...
...dangerous missions that could result in capture and torture, the military tries to assign volunteers who are the most resistant to pain. One test for selecting them involves flashing a word or symbol on a screen for a fraction of a second, then for longer periods of time. Volunteers who take the most time to read the screen are presumed to have "turned down" nervous systems and the greatest ability to endure pain...
Administrators, however, are have a tough time dispelling Radcliffe's "unlikeable" reputation, which has prevailed over the years. "Unfortunately, Radcliffe is in a bad situation. The ultimate solution is just to assign people, but that eliminates free choice, and the House system depends on free choice. It's very much a trade-off," Michael W. Gibbons '78 says...
...program, which is not yet formally recognized by Harvard, would assign freshmen according to fields of interest and would aim to "offer freshmen immediate upperclass advice" with regard to academics and life at Harvard in general, Kyriazis said...