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BILL DUVALL WANTS TO FIND PORN ON the Internet. He wants to so badly that he pays Stanford University graduate students to track it down for him. Those bright-eyed bounty hunters of smut are efficient, finding between five and 10 places a day that meet Duvall's single criterion: sexual explicitness. On a typical day last week, his free-lancers brought him the Internet addresses of computers that proffered bootleg images from Playboy, erotic bedtime stories and stag party-style X-rated video snippets. All of them went into a kind of address book that has well in excess...
...addition, the Core does not include certain courses because they supposedly do not meet the 'approach to knowledge' criterion. This year, History 10, a year-long survey of Western civilization, was not allowed into the Core because it did not precisely fit the description of Historical Study A or B. A persnickety distinction such as this is a ridiculous reason to discourage students from studying western civilization as a fundamental part of their education...
...main reason things worked out so nicely was Streep's discovery that he was her kind of director and Eastwood's that she was his kind of actress. Her criterion, she said, was someone who "doesn't say anything to me ... leaves me alone." Well, not entirely alone; what she needs is "somebody who inspires your confidence, who sets up a safe world for you [where you can] make your mistakes and go as wild and as far out as you want...
...membership with our friends just to win the election. Her evidence? Some of our members have not attended a meeting since the election. While I would ask Williams to find me any large organization on campus which attracts every member to every general meeting, I would also question her criterion for making this accusation. If we use meeting attendance to decide who is "padding," then Williams herself, as well as eight other members of their 14-person executive board, could be included in this category--they have not attended an HRC meeting since elections...
Nowhere on any college application I have ever seen is moral fiber defined as a criterion for admission. And how does one measure moral fiber anyway? Should academic institutions allow their interviewers to probe 17 year-old psyches and, in one hour or less, form opinions on their characters? Are any of these interviewers qualified to do this, or are they acting like armchair psychologists at the students' expense? And why are colleges doing this anyway? Presumably they are choosing candidates foe academia and not the priesthood...