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...GOLD: "Cards with the same image in gold indicate significant contribution. The criteria include longer service staff and officers who have either 15 years of continuous service to the University or 25 years with periods of absence or what we call "broken service," professors emerita and emeritus and, of course, full retirees...
...shouldn't be. The First Amendment is indeed about the right of expression. But it is not about any chimerical right to have others subsidize that expression. As long as we keep this crucial distinction in mind, there should be no problem with the government insisting on certain criteria as a precondition of funding--those who find the stipulations stifling can seek money elsewhere and leave the matter at that...
...weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support art, this peculiar interpretation of the Constitution counsels; but once you get in the game, moral criteria are illegitimate and only artistic considerations should apply...
...Shay's and the Cellar all shut down, and drunken students stumble to the four winds. Heading towards the Kong, the Grille, Charlie's or Casablanca for one last hurrah, these students choose their destination based on desired atmosphere and invariably, hook-up potential. Although this tried and true criteria has proven to work in the past, there is now a new variable that must be added to the decision making process...
That's a jaded view of the commonly quoted phrase "most of the learning goes on outside of the classroom." But it's true in certain ways. Do you really want to know the criteria Harvard bases its acceptances on? In its unconsciously pretentious way, Harvard likes to say that it's betting on the future of its students. You may hear differently from your proctors, tutors and House Masters. But each member of the admissions committee will tell you that they care less about the grades you get here than about what you do with yourself after you graduate...