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Perkins is quick and eager to defend his work, however, questioning Wechsler’s methods of data collection and denying his findings. One of the biggest problems with Wechsler’s study, says Perkins, was that it determined whether a school used social norms by posing it as a yes or no question to a single administrator; Wechsler did not ask how or to what extent the schools implemented their campaigns. According to Perkins, the study does not distinguish the social norms prevention approach from other anti-drinking strategies...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Can Good PR Work Curb Binge Drinking? | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...also be surprised to know that the Office of Career Services (OCS) provides resources for similarly interested job-seekers,and not only for those eager participants in OCS recruiting’s rat race...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BAMMA SLAMMA | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...meeting, ABHW meeting, or wherever youll feel most comfortable. There won't be a set of black men aggressively approaching and robbing you at a BMF meeting, and you won't walk into an ABHW meeting to find hysterical black women screaming at one another and eager to bite your head off. The sooner people stop being intimidated and learn to use these organizations to adjust their racial comfort zones and break out of stereotypical thinking, the sooner my friends can stop coming to me with those annoying stories, and we can all start behaving like the educated, worldly people...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: Public Service Announcement | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

Still, Turner and his men are eager to join the operation. Driving all night along riverbeds and dirt tracks, the convoy reaches its destination at daybreak. A pickup carrying Afghan troops has flipped over, injuring two soldiers, so Turner is down several men. Gates, the least injured passenger in the bombed humvee, insists on coming along. "I wasn't that shaken," says Gates. "I was just pissed that I didn't have a truck anymore. I wanted to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Shadows | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...purity of the album evokes a young painter’s sketchbook, prepared by the eager apprentice as he learns to see through others’ eyes before truly exercising...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veneer | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

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