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...students and workers, a petition signed by more than one thousand students and 150 faculty--including professors across the ideological spectrum from Cornel R. West '74 to former Sen. Alan K. Simpson--and several resolutions passed by the Cambridge City Council has President Neil L. Rudenstine failed to commit to a living wage? Why do Rudenstine and company seem to believe that the question of the living wage will fade away if only they wait long enough? The minimal cost of implementation--only one-half of one percent of the interest on the endowment--cannot explain administrators' intractable stance. Perhaps...
...result of this slight bias in favor of the early pool has been that students have been applying early in record numbers, forcing high school seniors to commit to schools before they truly have a chance to make as educated a decision as possible with regard to picking the right college. And with more of the decisions being made early on in senior year, students are losing the chance to show improvement during their last year in high school...
Sega of America is announcing today that it will give away $200 Dreamcast consoles to gamers who subscribe to SegaNet, a new high-speed Internet service devoted to multiplayer online gaming. Commit to two years of $21.95-per-month service and you get the console free through a rebate. The rebate plan is similar to offers from other Internet service providers such as CompuServe that can run upwards of $400 or even cover the cost...
Forget about it if you are trying to play sports and have even mildly suspect grades: Commit early or check out the two-hand touch league at the local Y near campus! People have these horrendously flawed, preconceived notions of places based on nothing at all. And they get held to it--because colleges are being selfish. In this day of extreme selectivity at big name schools, colleges want insurance that admitting one student over someone else won't hurt their yield and drop them in those asinine U.S. News and World Report rankings...
With two runs already in and Harvard senior Jessie Amberg at third base representing the tying run, Mercer starter Stephanie Anunson got Harvard first baseman Ghia Goddfrey to commit the game's final out to preserve a 4-3 win for the Bears...