Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blackout at Tufts University delayed the start of the MCATs last Saturday, requiring pre-meds to wait nearly two hours before they could begin the six-hour exam...
While some students said the blackout didn't affect their test performance very much, others were less optimistic...
...started zoning out the last part of the test," said Philip R. Chang '94. "Most of us have been training for a certain schedule so [the blackout] threw our body clocks...
Many Harvard alumni, faculty, staff, graduate students and others hold cards that entitle them to recreational use. In past years, the facilities have generally been open for such use after 6:30 p.m. This winter the number of evening blackout dates has been radically increased, with no explanation...
...long as the Athletic Department is charging a fee for participation cards, it's accepting the fact that recreational users are a constituency too. Perhaps it might find ways, through careful scheduling, to accommodate the college without so frequently banishing the rest of us. It might collect all the blackout times and dates on a single notice (something that's never been done). It might even leave copies of such a notice, regularly updated, where we could pick them up. Then we could stop pinning pencils and notebooks to our jogging shorts...