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While this makes sense given that automatic berths for the ECAC North, ECAC East, and WCHA champions would leave only one at-large berth for the NCAA tournament, the best solution is to expand the tournament, not hold back automatic berths. With four teams in a tournament and 27 Division One teams to draw from, women’s college hockey has a selection-to-participation ratio well below the NCAA average of about 20 percent...
...kind of a political thing, but it affects students’ lives,” Fernandez says. But council member Brian R. Smith ‘02 says Lee and Fernandez should focus on continuing Gusmorino’s student services success rather than working to expand the council’s scope...
Other sacrifices may not be so easily recouped. Critics, including some classroom teachers, contend that many test-prep activities--such as skimming instead of reading passages or speedily filling in bubble sheets--do nothing to really expand brainpower or knowledge. For example, a Kaplan guide to the writing section of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills counsels students not to dwell on spelling and punctuation: "If you write a deeply moving essay with atrocious grammar, you might still get a...passing score." Says Walt Haney, a testing expert at Boston College: "My main worry is that students will learn...
...Afghan town of Gardez while he was visiting London. Reports said at least 60 people died as a Kabul-appointed governor, Pacha Khan Zadran, tried to lay claim to the Paktia town. Residents supported local Pashtun leader Haji Saifullah. British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Karzai he could not expand his commitment beyond the U.K.?s promised 5,000 troops. PAKISTAN Shadowy World Police arrested two former Taliban ministers and a Muslim cleric, Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who was thought to be linked to the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. A little-known group called the National...
While no council members took issue with Lee’s vision for a more approachable council, some expressed concern that Lee seeks to expand the role of the council beyond the realm of tangible student services...