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...very mature and focused young man," she says. "Age is not necessarily a criterion for maturity, and Michael's always been able...
...years ago, the prevalence of e-mail was measured in number of student accounts, a criterion which is now void because HASCS precreates accounts for all incoming first years...
...mutually exclusive. Let us not look down on those who value financial security. An individual's desire to earn a steady income in and of itself is not a vice. It is how one balances this desire while maintaining time for "play" which is a far more acceptable criterion for judgement. Perhaps we should give our fellow students a greater benefit of the doubt, assuming they too will find ways to utilize themselves and remain true to themselves in the world of briefs, numbers and trading...
...consider also the moral side--in particular, the irony of judging Columbus' and the Europeans' faults, including plunder and slavery, by a moral criterion developed in the West--the sanctity of human life and evinced by their practice of slavery, intertribal warfare, and even human sacrifice. It is Western civilization--specifically, its values of reason, individualism, and freedom--which has made the greatest progress in history in eradicating such horrors from the face of the earth. Ear from smearing the man who introduced such a life-giving culture to this hemisphere with fatuous invocations of Hitler and Stalin. We should...
According to Mayman, the committee looks for two key elements in the creative proposals. First, "we encourage students to try things that they otherwise may not." That means that "experimental" is the main criterion; as Mayman says, "You can always find ticket buyers for and produce a typical 'Guys and Dolls' production, but it is unusual and very hard to find support for the projects that we fund." The second important element is that the project must be "of educational benefit to a range of undergraduates--the project [should] have a ripple effect among undergraduates...