Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Selling tickets at Harvard and Yale is a confusing job, ticket venders agreed. Not only are assignments done by hand they explained, but also both schools use complex priority systems to assign seats. Harvard's system has 13 priority levels, with the President and the Fellows at the top and the Board of Overseers just below them...
...coax better writing out of fledgling scientists, reports that students in every subject are expressing themselves with more clarity and coherence. Psychologist Doug Chute uses the Mac to replace polygraph machines and other behavioral lab paraphernalia. No longer dependent on limited laboratory space and equipment, he can now assign individual research projects to 1,200 introductory-psych students a year. History Professor Eric Brose discovered that by displaying on a Mac the political boundaries and disarmament terms established by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, he was able to skip his usual map lecture and concentrate on the underlying causes...
...shortage is most apparent among technical directors, who are often sought only after casting is completed. Ann E. Pforzheimer '86, the club official who helps directors find technical workers, said she believes the problem is caused by the lack of a central office to assign "techies...
...case of the former, the University should allow departments not to assign alleged sexual harassers to courses specifically required for a degree. The department should approach effectively required courses, admittedly a more debatable issue, with a mind open to student concerns...
...consultant for the P.M.R.C., asserts that "any artist who is a true artist won't care about a rating." Singers and songwriters have other ideas. "I feel more akin to the rebels than the reverends," says John Fogerty. "This whole thing sounds kind of dangerous to me. Who will assign these labels anyway? Once you get a rating system, you may then in fact not see certain records with certain ratings in the stores or hear them on the radio." Jackson Browne wonders if his albums could get rated P for political, or whether such exercises in innocent hedonism...