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Money has already been allocated to finance the new advising initiatives, as well as the pub in Loker Commons and the café in Lamont Library, Gross said. The pub and the café will begin construction this June...
...mission of HoCos is to unite House residents. Requiring students to pay out of pocket in order to join in regular House festivities such as happy hours is an unnecessarily divisive practice. Moreover, it is unreasonable for Houses to charge students for access to money that is theirs to begin with through termbill payments. Naturally, ticket costs for formals and special bashes should not be regarded as House dues; but students should have the option of opting into these events individually and not yoked to all-or-nothing deals...
...five or six mentors, who are one or two grades above the other girls and sometimes Ophelia graduates themselves. Teachers and administrators pick the participants, looking for girls who are aggressors, victims or enabling bystanders. The groups meet in 12 weekly sessions of 90 min. each. Most meetings begin with cooperation exercises such as forming hand-holding circles with all the girls' arms crisscrossing in the middle, and then trying to untangle without releasing hands. Sullen teens and tweens would not seem the best candidates for such an exercise, but at Lower Dauphin, they go at it gamely. "This...
...economy by offering professional skills that are-even in a country of 1.3 billion people-in relatively short supply. But as China continues to grow, and the country continues to educate its people to meet the demands of a market economy, the window of opportunity for Chinese Americans will begin to narrow. Daniel Shih believes that has already started to happen. A Taiwan native who became a U.S. citizen in 1984, Shih, 54, was president of Motorola China from 2003 till last year, managing over 10,000 people. He says the days when Chinese Americans could go to China...
...With a new hurricane season about to begin, more than half the city's 460,000 residents have not returned. Those who have are frustrated by the uncertainty - both in their personal lives and the life of the city. There is a litany of daily annoyances, from crumbling streets to piles of flood-damaged cars that have yet to be hauled away, not to mention miles of abandoned housing. Sylvia Barabino, who lived in heavily flooded New Orleans East, drove in from Baton Rouge where she has been living since Katrina to vote. Her home is uninhabitable and the elementary...