Word: cutoffs
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...study, conversely, used a cutoff BMI of 27 to define an overweight person...
...social structure has changed utterly. The village is now a suburb of the local town. Dirt tracks through the olive groves have become paved roads. Not long ago, it was a minor scandal when a girl student, back for the summer, walked around in a T shirt and cutoff jeans; now local girls sunbathe in thong bikinis. What we first encountered as a peasant society, whose rhythms were agricultural and ritualistic, has become a wholly modern...
...current cutoff forces students looking for a little more down time after 1 a.m. to seek off-campus parties and final clubs where they may feel less comfortable or less safe. Harvard students keep late hours, and the 1 a.m. deadline doesn’t match up with the reality of undergraduate life. Peer schools have recognized the need to let their students party until 2 am; with overwhelming support from Harvard’s undergraduates—91 percent supported the later hours in a 2001 Council survey—it’s time for the House Masters...
When this proposal comes before the assembled House Masters and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, they should swiftly approve it. With so many reasons to keep partying until 2 a.m. and such a lack of logic behind the current cutoff, there’s no justification not to make the change. Party...
Although The Crimson, and Harvard students, alumni and law school faculty members, have all denounced the University’s decision not to join a constitutional law suit challenging the Solomon Amendment (which threatens the cutoff of federal funds if military recruiters are barred from campus) there is something they can do by themselves which may be far more effective...