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Better alternatives could have been chosen. The first would be to include the appropriate mathematical tehniques as material in 1010. A second, more drastic measure, would be to require that every honors Economics concentrator pass a Math 21a: "Intermediate Calculus" final, whether they have to take the course or not. Instead of trying to maximize the size of the department by making Economics a popular, and easy, concentration, the faculty should ensure that honors students are qualified, well-educated scholars in their field...
...sufferers. Ruth Shapiro, 40, of Los Angeles, demurred when told by an orthodontist that her only hope was to have reconstructive surgery that would involve breaking her jaw. "He said I wasn't even going to look the same," she recalls in horror. Dentists and patients alike hope such drastic prescriptions will soon disappear. Eventually, they say,temporomandibular-joint disorder should be a jawbreaker in name only...
...police prepared for their sweeps last week, County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn took a drastic step. In a telegram to Governor George Deukmejian, he asked that National Guard military police be dispatched to South Central L.A. for a "show of force." While the Governor's office replied that such a move would be "doubtful," the full county board of supervisors and the Los Angeles city council began debating whether to formally to request the assistance of the Guard...
...move that had less drastic consequences than similar actions at Yale, T.A.'s at the University of Pennsylvania recently formed the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) to ask the administration for a pay increase to compensate for a higher cost of living...
These protesters don't deserve to use the catchier slogans they dragged out for their spring sing-a-long outside 17 Quincy Street last weekend--those belong to another age when radical students believed in their causes and took drastic actions to further them...