Word: effective
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...Frank's "Students Question Services' Impact" (News Story, October 28) brings up important issues which deserve discussion in a public forum. As someone who has been working and volunteering in the Chinatown community for over three years through Phillips Brooks House Association, I have often questioned my ability to effect change. However, Ms. Frank's article fails to cast substantial light on the subject, primarily due to broad generalizations and a consequent lack of depth...
...Students Question Services' Impact" (news story, Oct. 28) brings up important issues which deserve discussion in a public forum. As someone who has been working and volunteering in the Chinatown community for over three years through the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), I have often questioned my ability to effect change. However, Ms. Frank's article fails to cast substantial light on the subject, primarily due to broad generalizations and a consequent lack of depth...
...surprised that the article does not mention Professor Robert Coles or his book, The Call of Service, which addresses the kinds of questions Ms. Frank is asking, particularly in the context of college students and Harvard specifically. While one may question the ability of student-run programs to effect broad social change, there is no question that the volunteer benefits, a fact which Professor Coles substantially documents...
...acquaintance rape? The difference, however, is that this case involved an innocent act of affection between two first-graders in Lexington, North Carolina. When six-year-old Jonathan Prevette planted a kiss on the cheek of the girl he liked, he could not have known how great an effect it would have. Prevette was promptly suspended from school in a case that quickly became the object of public scrutiny. A week later, a New York City school suspended a seven-year-old boy for kissing a girl in class. In both of these recent cases, charges were brought against...
Both sides filed lawsuits Wednesday over the measure: proponents to get it into effect, opponents to get rid of it as unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press...