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...group: “Winthrop ain’t nothing to fuck with.” While hardly lyrical genius, the design has some merits: It doesn’t feature a penis, or penis-shaped object. In several houses, previous designs and current proposals have shown a distinct tendency to veer towards the phallic in their attempt to inspire house pride. Mather house, for example, last year clothed its troops in a design featuring the blockish Mather Tower in a phallic shape with the witty shibboleth, “Nice Unit,” underneath. This trend is perhaps...
...similar to the Ash Institute’s Innovations in American Government Awards Program, now endowed by the Ford Foundation, because it aims to highlight governmental innovations so that they can be adopted by others. But with its international focus and corporate sponsorship, the IBM-sponsored award remains distinct. Unlike the endowed American government award, it will have to be renewed on an annual basis for the time being, according to the award’s organizers. The award’s international focus stemmed from lessons learned in the American government award program, said Jayne M. Iafrate, communications manager...
...environmental savings in the future. Unlimited access to online resources from any Internet terminal will greatly reduce the need to order multiple hard copies of books and periodicals. Nevertheless, as HUL moves forward with its digitization process, it must not neglect its print holdings. Traditional books and periodicals offer distinct advantages, including durability and permanency, that do not rely on the whims of a server. Printed books, moreover, are a more pleasurable reading experience for many readers, and the joy of stumbling upon a useful but theretofore unknown book while searching for its neighbor in the stacks cannot easily...
...waiting to get direction from the EPC about whether we should develop a mechanism to allow students to petition us to not count groups of courses that are distinct from their focus area in Social Studies,” Bernstein wrote in an e-mailed statement. She declined to be interviewed over the phone...
Even more disappointing is the distinct scent of pork that permeates the UC’s lack of initiative. According to one UC representative, paying $1,700 for two months’ worth of newspapers for an entire campus, “just took money away from student groups.” Fair enough. Moments after voting down the newspaper initiative, however, the UC approved grants for similar amounts to individual student groups, whose combined impact for the undergraduate population is certain to be less than a stack of free newspapers in dining halls each morning...