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Hyman has also taken over the lion’s share of the president’s alumni development and fundraising duties—a potential boon to his prospects as a candidate...
...more than anyone else. Frankly, we wouldn’t like it any better coming from a UC campaign than we would from a V!agra salesperson. But, alas, we are resigned to the fact that dealing with a little more spam and fewer rules would be a boon to the health and fairness of UC elections...
...next level. Thanks to his running mate, Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, upperclassmen are now able to swipe into any freshman dorm when the girls they’re with are too drunk to do it themselves. As you might imagine, this policy has been a huge boon to perverts on campus and has quadrupled the attendance at our Room 13 counseling group on Wednesday nights. The only downside we can think of is that our stipend hasn’t kept up with the extra cookies and pamphlets that we need to make campus safe...
...Then there's Australia's opulent batting talent. Of the top 10 all-time Australian run-scorers, seven have played post-1995, with the combined tally of the Waugh brothers, Ponting, Taylor, David Boon, Langer and Hayden nearing 60,000 runs. True, modern players' high representation on these lists is due partly to their tendency to play for longer than their predecessors did. Even so, no one questions the extraordinarily high caliber of recent Australian sides, which have recharged as well as dominated the Test scene. As he settled into international cricket in the early '90s, Warne discredited the prevailing...
...open curriculum à la Brown or Amherst gives students the ultimate freedom to choose courses without having to satisfy requirements. The open curriculum is grounded in the idea that students will learn most in courses that they want to take. Aside from the obvious boon to students freed from obligation, it would add to the worth of every class. Learning requires interaction between the subject and the person, and not foisting matters on students would enhance the quality of discussions in such classes. Greater choice, in short, would lead to better students, who would also pay greater attention...