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...called, make up the circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they and their parents had the energy and resources. "There's a new pageant popping up all the time," says V. J. LaCour, publisher of Pageant Life, a Sacramento quarterly with a circulation of 60,000. "The reason...
Today, boarding schools cater to the adolescents that they are supposed to educate. The adolescent has become the consumer, and the school has become a provider, racing to keep up with teenagers' wishes. Hicks complains that more and more creature comforts, such as cable television, are destroying the former selfless asceticism of the schools. Psychological theories of development demand that adolescents be given room to express themselves, and, Hicks implies, the liberal establishment demands that such theories be adhered...
Surely Harvard is not the only university in the nation to cater to the breakfast-eaters, but it may be the least accommodating to those of us who keep later hours. It's time for Harvard students of the night to stand up and demand some compromise. Short of scrapping the paternalistic, 19th-century meal plan altogether or creating a "midnight meal" option, one step in the right direction would be staggering hours among the 13 dining halls...
...reactive instead of proactive, for resorting to outmoded methods of career development rather than exploring innovative new techniques and for lacking a cohesive publicity campaign. In the future, OCS should expand the narrow focus of its Career Forum and devote more of its resources to campus-wide events that cater to demonstrated student interests. Career counselors should take a hint from the 600 students who attended the Media Fair and concentrate more of their energy on sponsoring similar events in the future...
...acts, more so than voting, tend to promote the interests of the people because good public servants listen to effective citizens who work year-round to keep important issues visible. Imagine the problems of the election year. Common sense legislation gets lost and many politicians do their best to cater to polls of likely voters. If our aim is to be able to make a choice between two good candidates then vote for the best candidates at local and state level, participate constantly and continuously and hope that in the future our civic society might entice our best people...