Word: classroom
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...third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself; he may not come home alive. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard at work training in the classroom and the field. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? It is high time for military families to stand up to this Administration and say, No more...
...distinction between the real world and campus life becomes arbitrary once we are reminded that no person or place is immune to real tragedy. At Harvard, like at other campuses across the country, students have been trying to fathom the horror of watching a fellow student stepping into a classroom and brandish a gun, or receiving a text message that a friend was shot. Such efforts have proven futile. All we can do is send our thoughts and prayers to our peers in Blacksburg and hope that Virginia Tech’s recovery from these grimmest of circumstances will heal...
Exhaustion from four years of meetings and reports could prompt faculty to retreat into comfortably established classroom routines. Yet we must not presume that President-elect Drew G. Faust and her incoming deans can implement complex changes on their own. Genuine improvements in advising, course offerings, and pedagogy require ongoing faculty commitment. Each step of the way, faculty and administrators must articulate clear goals and plan wisely for how (and how not) to proceed. Here are some principles and caveats to keep in mind...
...compact 15-round magazines that fit a Glock 19. Cho surely knew that in cold weather a mass murderer could carry an arsenal on his back and in his pockets, and there would be no way to detect him, short of metal detectors at every entrance to every classroom building and dorm...
That would explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre: Where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire at a high-rise dorm, and the second attack, at a classroom building...