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...termbill money (more if it decides to renew the service beyond the current two-and-a-half month contract) on a website that House lists, or a cheaply developed message board, could do just as well. Furthermore, the new Web site will face a considerable activation energy barrier to its success—the number of users will have to reach a dauntingly large critical mass before the site becomes a worthwhile investment. And the UC’s track record with events whose success depends on active student participation has not been the best. For a number of years...
...first turn as president, likened the 1978 curricular review to “moving a cemetery.” His most recent book, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” assails the “self-interested behavior” of professors as the most significant barrier to reform in higher education...
...more deleterious effect of these financial woes is the high barrier of entry they create for low-income students. To make up the difference between the tiny allocation from the Department of Athletics and the considerable costs of a club sport, most sports require members to pay sizable fees. For students on significant financial aid, $150 in club sport dues can be more than enough to keep students from participating. And for club sports like Men’s Ultimate Frisbee, where A-team members are expected to pay nearly $1,000 in travel costs, the barriers to low-income...
...Brave Soldier Aimed at the outdoorsy type, the California-based extreme-sports range includes Friction Zone, an anti-chafing body barrier, and Crash Paks, which contain everything you need to treat a road-rash injury. The silicone-based Shower Shave is designed for use on both face and body (cyclists sometimes shave their legs). www.skinstore.com
...club sports, both of which passed with relative ease. The club sports bill aims to improve the transparency of the process used by the club sports office and FiCom to award funds to club teams, while “trying to make sure that there is not [a] high barrier of entry to club sports for students on financial aid,” according to Michael R. Ragalie ’09, a co-sponsor of the bill. Ragalie said there were plans for UC representatives to meet separately with the club sports office and the financial aid office this...