Word: ec
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...have trouble understanding your Ec 10 TF? Dean Theda Skocpol and the Graduate Policy Committee may have the solution. All non-native English speaking graduate students—whether they anticipate teaching undergraduates or not—will now be screened for competency in reading and speaking English, according to a report released today by the committee. Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday that measures are in place to ensure quality of speaking and writing skills but that they have not been uniform or consistent. “It?...
Many students have been baptized into economics by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 or Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, who currently teaches Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics,” better known as Ec 10, the introductory course in economics that is one of the most popular courses at the College. But even those who have never crowded into Sanders Theater each year for an Ec 10 lecture often use terms taken from economics jargon...
Similarly, a group of roommates might invoke the “Tragedy of the Commons” to describe why their common room is so cluttered. And if any in the suite have taken Ec 10, there might even be an “enclosure” proposal to create an incentive for tidying up the room by dividing it among them into separate personal spaces...
...familiar feeling of near-Siberian isolation: “What does it take to get a drink in this place?” Indeed. Respect, rinse, and repeat. 5) Tom Waits, “God’s Away on Business”: This one goes out to the Ec concentrators. See: “I’d sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, for a buck/If you’re looking for someone to pull you out of that ditch you’re out of luck, you’re out of luck...
...rules, as they stand, encourage campaigns to misstate their campaign personnel rosters to the EC. Although an individual affiliated with a campaign or at the directive of candidates cannot send out unsolicited e-mails on the campaign’s behalf, individuals outside the official campaign apparatus can still do as they please. As such, candidates have an incentive to leave names off their campaign lists or simply deny association (otherwise unprovable) with unofficial campaign e-mailers...