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...status in the “in crowd”—completely contradicts the bond of sisterhood they claim to uphold. Though the remaining members of the DZ chapter issued a statement yesterday denying that “race, weight, and academic majors were used as a criteria [sic] in the membership review process” and blaming the chapter’s woes on “campus climate,” the plausibility of their excuses and denials are threadbare. Since The New York Times first wrote about DZ last weekend, a mountain of evidence...
...counterexample to their claim. The contest, known as the “Repression Challenge,” can be found on the lab’s website at www.biopsychlab.com and has so far received over 100 submissions; but none have fit the study’s specific criteria. Among other stipulations, the criteria require that the subject in question have experienced severe trauma, and that his or her memory loss cannot be explained by biological factors. While Kenan Professor of Psychology Daniel Schacter, who studies the biological aspects of amnesia, agrees that examples of dissociative amnesia are difficult to identify...
...lottery for a coveted spot in one class or another. Visual and Environmental Studies courses, Freshman Seminars, and many popular cores are capped. Such lotteries, however, are a standardized affair in which the major deciding factors are seniority, need, and chance. In the competitive world of creating writing, admission criteria are far more personal.The applications comprise a cover letter and a three- to five-page writing sample specific to the workshop. Often, the intensely personal nature of writing can make rejection from a workshop a singularly bitter experience, and application a sheer emotional impossibility.“The creative writing...
...report examined the implementation of the legislation in six states: Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, New York and Virginia. States were chosen for the study based on criteria that included location and student demographics...
While it is certainly exciting that Harvard has finally elected a woman president after over 371 years, gender should not be the main criteria for judging our new president. It is disappointing that the first debates about her election do not feature important issues about the University’s future direction, but rather whether or not she was elected solely based on the fact she is a woman...