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...large portion of their 2012 class, Harvard admissions officers will wait until January to begin vetting applicants. Though few colleges have followed Harvard’s example so far, we still hope that will change as admissions officers across the country come to realize how big of a boon the elimination of early admissions policies is to high school students and universities alike. When Harvard decided last September to do away with all early admissions programs at the College, an oft-touted benefit was the additional time it would provide admissions officers in the fall. No longer bogged down reading...
...students to browse and chance on stories they may have not seen otherwise in a way that the Web precludes. Students already read campus news on a regular basis in the dining hall; they should have similar access to the national news. We hope the administration will realize the boon such an initiative will prove for intellectual life on campus and foot the bill with enthusiasm...
...there are some in the industry who think the royalty will actually be a boon for business. Gold mining's biggest market, the jewelry retailers, support Rahall's bill saying that environmental responsibility is what more and more of its customers are looking for: at least 80% of gold consumed goes to the superfluous bling of human adornment, and some of those customers are feeling ethical pangs...
...Dunster received the new heads over the summer, and the showerheads are currently being installed in other Houses and the freshman dorms. All told, it is expected that the new showerheads will save close to 2.5 million gallons of water and $40,000 per year, which is clearly a boon to the environment and a step in the right direction. Students’ comments on the new showers, however, have been mixed: a Mather resident mysteriously found that the low flow showerhead improved water pressure, but students from other Houses and freshman dorms have complained that their water pressure...
...worried about the undervalued yuan is that the major consequence– “allowing Chinese businesses to produce products... whose prices are lower than the prices of their American-made counterparts,” is in fact beneficial for the United States. Cheap imports are an incredible boon for Americans, a fact that is evident to anyone who has been to Wal-Mart. In her critique of certain protectionist policies, Lescroart falls into the general protectionist fallacy of seeing the availability of cheap products for Americans as a bad thing simply because those products come from outside...