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...rather than electing to tune in, turn on and drop out, Gen Xers are proving to be deeply competitive. Back when bumper stickers exhorted one to make love not war--in 1973, to be exact--only two-thirds of twentysomethings polled by Yankelovich agreed that "competition encourages excellence." Today 82% of their counterparts say, "I like to compete: it makes me perform better." The recent surge of extreme sports--from bungee jumping to sky surfing--is no accident. The hip slogan of the Gen X T shirt? NO FEAR. Indeed, adversity, far from discouraging youths, has given them a harder...
...final version of the legislation did not lower the number of requirements to the CRC's suggested seven. But administrators said the exact requirements might change as the legislation is implemented and the Faculty examines undergraduate requirements as a whole with an eye toward reducing them...
Nagy says he has no exact scheme for how to expand the language curriculum for every student...
Flier termed the consensus at the summit "remarkable," but attendees said they were no closer to an exact plan...
...results of the indoor H-Y-P meet was deja vu from the fall. The men placed third behind first-place Princeton and second-place Yale, and the women placed second behind Princeton and a good 13 points ahead of the woeful Elis. Fortunately for the men, they would exact revenge on Yale at Heps a few weeks later...