Word: existance
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...flip side of the coin from the act of evaluation, however, is the act of creation. Producing things of value is just as important as evaluating things that already exist. How do you make something that you think has value? How do you give an object worth, meaning, significance? Some people learn to create monetary value (of varying degrees of reality or imaginariness—like all those recent graduates blowing hot air into the ballooning moneybags of Wall Street in the earlier part of this decade), others create social value with nonprofit work, others create artistic value through films...
...assistant position to the Allston Burr resident dean, which currently exists for each of the 12 Houses, is also in jeopardy. According to House administrators, plans exist to scale back this position into a 10-month job or to consolidate the office so that one assistant provides support to multiple Houses. This assistant provides counseling and advising services, sends letters of recommendations to graduate programs for students, and maintains House alumni files. A scaling back of these services would certainly have a large impact on students and their Housing experience...
...from treating sanitation to investing in green energy to establishing the much-needed ferry network linking the archipelago's far-flung islands. Election fever is growing: Nasheed sits in office with the tenuous backing of a coalition of increasingly fractious parties, fitful after decades in which politics could not exist at all. Parliamentary elections on May 9 could give him and the MDP a stronger mandate - or cripple his ability to execute his agenda...
...Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records, and the Standing Committee on the Administration of the Bowdoin Prizes—which will be reconstituted as a prize committee—were all eliminated. FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said that Smith is reexamining whether all these faculty committees need to exist not only as a clean-up operation, but also because they can be time-consuming for professors. Smith could not be reached for comment yesterday. There are currently 63 FAS committees listed on the Secretary of the Faculty’s Web site—but most of those eliminated...
...Scott M. Elfenbein ’11 said that he also believed the cuts to the shuttle service will be a safety concern, but added that he thought they exacerbated the more important issue of the House budget cuts. “Our entire social lives cannot exist in the river and then they still expect us to live in the Quad,” said Elfenbein, who added that House activities and events were the main highlights of Quad life. Although many students said they felt Quad residents were being disproportionately affected, most said they understood that the extra...