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...Fall semester exams from January to December—a move that was favored by our peers by a two to one margin in a free-response online Undergraduate Council survey of more than 100 students carried out earlier this year—would provide a welcome stress-free block in the middle of the year. Especially as our school has become increasingly national and international, the importance of making the sometimes-long journey home with no accompanying work or conflicting commitments has increased for us. We should welcome the calendar changes proposed by the committee and head home...
There’s a new student group on the block and it’s safe to say they’re not interested in resume fillers. Rather, they’ve got more important stuff on the brain. Heaven and hell, for instance...
There’s a new student group on the block and it’s safe to say they’re not interested in resume fillers. Rather, they’ve got more important stuff on the brain. Heaven and hell, for instance...
...more specifically, the irritatingly incessant tapping of computer keyboards. Here is conclusive aural proof of the awesome industriousness of the surrounding scholars—a sound which invariably seems to increase in volume directly proportionate to one’s own acute sense of writer’s block...
...riprapping--fortifying the banks with chunks of broken concrete or the bodies of junked cars. Rosgen saw that as absurd and destructive. Instead, he studies the geological features of the streambed to determine its ideal "meander geometry"--the way the stream should flow--thus preventing sediment buildup that could block the channel or erode the banks. He then uses natural materials to give the river a kind of eco-makeover. "I try to copy what works in nature," he says...