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...pledges usually drop out. Sarvis, one of two women in the 12-cadet group, leads the fraternity as its commanding officer. All this prepares her for the move she will soon make from commanding other ROTC cadets to commanding enlisted soldiers, most of whom will be men. Sarvis has chosen to be in the Corps of Engineers and hopes to be stationed in Germany. Wherever she ends up, she will be responsible for 40 soldiers in her platoon, some of whom may be older than she. They will likely have more military experience, too. “It?...
...said. “I don’t see why there should be fundamental opposition.” However, several prominent professors continue to argue that the entire curricular review should be put on hold until a new Dean of the Faculty and University President are chosen. “No curricular reform that’s going to be effective can be implemented effectively without the enthusiastic support of the dean and maybe the president,” McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 said.According to Lewis, a former Dean...
...realm of eternal fame in which their ties to the lives of ordinary beings are largely severed. Not B.B. King. Sixty years spent working with something as visceral as the blues has left him with no inclination to join the other immortals on music's Parnassus. Instead, he has chosen to remain right here with us, on the coal face of humanity, mining our rawest emotions to fuel a music that has the power to warm any heart. King's vast corpus of work has never been anything but honest, uplifting and universal in appeal. Now 80, he has embarked...
Primary-care doctors are less enthusiastic about the idea. Yet the American Academy of Family Physicians (A.A.F.P.) has officially concluded that it is pointless to battle the clinics' proliferation, and has chosen instead to define standards of sound practice. Many doctors argue that the clinics cannot provide the ongoing relationship between patient and caregiver that is crucial to managing disease. "There's no history and there's no future implied by the interaction" between nurse and patient at a miniclinic, says Dr. John Saultz, who teaches family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. "We take responsibility for [our patients...
...arbitrate a dispute over its name. It used to be called Winthrop, after its 19th century patriarch, but a local software magnate is looking for something more hip and happening--"New Prospera" has been suggested. Also in the running is the town's original name, its Ur-name, chosen by the former slaves who founded it: Freedom...