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...active review period where we are seeking input from students, faculty, and staff to ensure that the self-study accurately reflects the community’s experience,” Dean Lamberth wrote in an e-mail after the meeting. One concern raised by student representatives at Wednesday’s meeting was whether the report—which makes no mention of social organizations like final clubs and sororities—captures the tendency of extracurricular and social life on campus to bleed together. But Lamberth pointed out in her e-mail that the reaccredidation standards do not inquire...
...biggest concern was that I didn’t think it was fair to my committee to be running in a competitive campus-wide election when I should have been dedicating myself to this role, which is really challenging,” she said. “It is very, very difficult to do a good job as SAC chair if you are planning an election...
Also, the amount of label reading is going up. There is a basic concern with health issues. It used to be that label reading was linked to income and education. The more likely you were to have a degree from Princeton, the more likely you would be to read labels in a store. And now that's linked to literacy. Everyone is doing it. (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...
...many of them - especially not teens - do anything about it. In fact, when teens are pressured by friends or family to turn down the volume on their iPods, they do exactly what you'd expect them to do: they turn the volume up instead. Even teens who express concern about the risk of hearing loss listen to music at potentially dangerous levels - higher on average than kids who say they're not worried about deafness. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...these misconceptions the fact that people are listening to music for longer periods of time - today's long-lasting batteries can crank out music for 15 hours or more - and it's no wonder that the risk of hearing loss is increasing. But perhaps so is the concern. In 2006 a Louisiana man filed suit against Apple, claiming that iPods are "not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss." Soon after, health authorities in France demanded increased safety measures. So the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., revised its software to set the maximum volume...