Word: dickinson
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...civil rights groups are almost certainly right, said Victor Romero, associate dean of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. While the Supreme Court hasn't spoken specifically about exactly this kind of local ordinance, it has long made clear that the federal government has the specific and exclusive right to admit or exclude any foreigners and regulate the terms of their stay in the United States. "Clearly this is the prerogative of the federal government... clearly [the Hazleton ordinance] is unconstitutional," Romero said...
Actually, no. And thus begins their higher education about higher education. "The more sophisticated kids who take on the search as a research project, they are getting past the prestige," says Petrella. Students see that schools like Vassar, Lehigh, Colgate and Dickinson really care about the quality of undergraduate life, she says. Since many counselors will advise the more anxious students to apply to at least nine schools (three stretches, three matches and three safeties), students run spreadsheets rating various criteria on a scale of 1 to 10, from the food to the student-teacher ratio to rates of acceptance...
...extremely strong sense of hierarchy,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I’m not sure that’s compatible with an honor code or, more fundamentally, to creating one in the first place.”Matthew J. Dickinson, a former Harvard professor who is now at Middlebury College, agreed that the culture of the administration impacts the potential for success.“[At Harvard], there might be a little more of an ethos of ‘we need to police the students’ than I find here...
...publication of “Sexual Personae”—a 700-page chronology of art and culture that establishes links between writers like Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade—brought Paglia into the spotlight both as an academic and as a cultural commentator...
...poem I love a great poem. That’s what Paglia does here. She has the patience and mastery to work slowly through each poem, explaining what the lines mean and analyzing their effects. Paglia’s approach is simple without being simplistic. From Shakespeare to Dickinson to Yeats to Plath, her criticism is readable and flawlessly done...