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...with a message of abstinence but of moderation and awareness of the risks. The challenge is to find effective ways of teaching those lessons. Last year, the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, located in the home state of casino-rich Atlantic City, developed what executive director Ed Looney says is the country's first responsible-gambling curriculum for grades K-12. The program emphasizes rational decision making and an awareness of the incredible odds against winning at casino games and the lottery. Counselors say the problem is that kids are inevitably exposed to gambling before they are developmentally...
...center also plans to pilot a new leadership curriculum before the end of the semester geared towards training groups of students in areas such as goal setting, retreat planning, and outreach. All student organizations will be able to participate on a first-come, first-serve basis including co-ed groups, Marine said...
...record has stood for 35 years.Despite three tests in the last 15 years, no one has ever come within 50 yards of Cornell legend Ed Marinaro’s all-time Ivy career rushing record of 4,715.This year a fourth player will make a run at the top of the list.Senior tailback Clifton Dawson’s numbers are projected not only to approach, but to surpass Marinaro’s.The back entered the 2006 campaign with 3,628 career yards, needing just 1,087 to break the 1971 record. With 170 yards in the team?...
...editors: I take significant issue with Mr. Bronshtein’s recently published “Make the Admissions Game Fair” (op-ed, Sep. 21) for several reasons. Initially, however, I will stand alongside the author in applauding the College’s recent decision to abolish its early action policy. It does represent an important step towards Harvard’s recruitment of “the very best,” as Bronshtein labels them, regardless of socioeconomic, geographic, or—for lack of better term—scholastic origin. It is true...
...editors: I hope Juliet Samuel (“A Place Called Community,” op-ed, Sep. 18) means well, but she seems rather misinformed about the ways the English system of university education works. Although I am told she is British, I took a degree from Oxbridge, and I cannot say I recognize those esteemed universities in the caricature she presents. Oxbridge undergrads and grad students enjoyed a healthy social life with all sorts of people, not just their entryway cohort, at least in my experience of less than 10 years ago. Merely being part of the same...