Word: decentering
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...from depression, only one-third of them are seeking treatment at UHS. The others may be wary of the stigma attached to their illness or may not want to take antidepressants. There is clear evidence that they could help themselves with regular exercise, but to do that, they need decent facilities. The long-term plans to renovate the MAC won’t help today’s students. For them, drastic action is called for in the face of an insidious epidemic...
...right to education is no more important than the right to “decent, safe, affordable housing,” universal health care, and clean air, he added...
...contribution is acknowledged with an excerpt, along with a chapter from Frances Maye's Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured...
...only all Houses were created equal. If Winthrop House (and others like it) had decent exercise rooms, I wouldn’t have to trudge up the MAC’s ice-encrusted steps just to wait for a cardio machine in a sweaty room for an hour and a half. Instead, I could strut down the heated corridors of Winthrop and not have to wait at all. Even if revamped house gyms did become crowded, I could add my name to a list and easily return later...
...staff supports heightening requirements for first-year students in their first semester without giving great pause to one of the main causes of poor performance—a lack of decent advising. Those students requiring a mid-semester withdrawal are the ones who stop attending classes, fail to complete their papers and problem sets, and do not study for exams. If the College offered better advising—requiring professors to file mid-term reports on all moderately and poor performing first-year students and having more frequent advising sessions that include particular focus on individual academic and emotional issues?...