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True to its fashoin, the administration has recognized the problem of poor lighting, but has far from solved anything. Some libraries, such as Hilles and Cabot, now have desk lamps, but far too few to accommodate students during peak hours and exam periods. Students are left to choose among many poor options: upgrade their lenses a notch and squint uncomfortably, go back to their rooms and read while they have a pizza and conversation with their roommates, regiment themsleves on taxi driver hours to find well-lit and quiet places to study (don't laugh, many students do precisely this...
...minorities tend to score lower on the exam and therefore appear on the lower half of the list, Reeves said. The "perceived need" promotions are generally drawn from the top half of the list, and consequently exclude many minorities...
Promotion of minority officers to higher ranks will also increase in the next civil service exam given in the spring, Healy said...
Promotions are granted on the basis of civil service exam scores and the "perceived need" for new officers within the individual ranks, said Reeves. Candidates for promotion are listed in the order of their exam scores...
...write home and tell them about this one," Meg continued. We had discovered we had a mutual tendency to oversleep. "I don't know why I came all the way to Australia to miss out on sleep. I could have done that at home," she muttered into her exam...