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...voices were raised” at last week’s meeting. The assistant to the resident dean is responsible for a wide array of administrative tasks, including the maintenance of an average of 400 files for current undergraduates as well as seven years’ worth of alumni files??which amounts to more than 500 files total in some Houses. The assistant also sends out recommendation letters for students applying to graduate or pre-professional schools. Additionally, he or she is often the sole “point of access” in Houses, providing students with...
...reality is it’s a lot more complicated.” In September, 2003, the RIAA announced that it would begin the first wave of what eventually became an (occasionally unsightly) onslaught of some 35,000 lawsuits against users caught illegally sharing files??a number that included, the Wall Street Journal later reported, “several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl.” But the movement was not conceived in a vacuum, coming amidst a hail of lost profits—14 percent in the space of four...
...that makes up the very heart of the admissions office: the file room.The room contains 255 filing drawers, and the walls are completely hidden by the files, except for a small counter—which had to be cut in half last year to make room for still more files??used for alphabetizing and organizing. On top of the cabinets lie more boxes filled with overflow applications.The sheer number of applications processed by the office cannot be fully understood until one is in the file room, according to Anderson. “Every drawer gets so full that...
...fiancé, Steve Lento, who’s been a regular at the festival since middle school. The highlight of this year’s festival was the recently-released “Alien Trespass.” Directed by former “X-Files?? producer R.W. Goodwin, the film pays homage to five iconic 1950s sci-fi films. Any great sci-fi movie, says Lento, “should be aware of and contain genre conventions; ideally, it should play with these conventions or do something new with them.” The self-referential nature...
...Financial aid applicants submit information on whether their family receives food stamps and welfare checks, how much their parents earn each month, and how much their families spend on rent, electricity, and healthcare. Until admissions decisions, all of this information sits unused in the financial aid files??just steps from the room where reviewers decide applicants’ fates...