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Other former residents, intrigued by rumors that don't quite jibe with their own memories of the place, occasionally wander back for a first-hand look. And their conclusions are rarely negative. Matthew W. Copel '79 sums up their feelings best as he sighs ruefully, "I keep telling myself I should have taken a year...
...class to create a good educational experience. It would be most unwise to take up a question where there are differences of opinion of this kind and subject it to a uniform, rigid rule in all institutions, imposed by judges who, good as they are, do not have intimate, first-hand knowledge in the nuances and subtleties of the admissions process...
...This does not rule out life," Goody added because the explanation cannot be confirmed without first-hand observation on the surface of Mars. But, he said, scientists are more inclined to believe a chemical explanation rather than a biological one because life is so improbable...
...SPRING of 1972 I spent a day with Sen. Walter Mondale (D.-Minn.) in Washington, D.C., as one of two delegates from Minnesota to the United States Senate Youth Program. Sponsored by the Hearst Foundation, the program was established in the hope that first-hand exposure to the federal government would nudge student leaders into the political profession...
Some material for another Widener-based thesis was gathered first-hand. The hierarchy of the Sufi movement, a mystical Muslim sect based in Mauritania and Senegal, has shifted from white to black domination of the past 40 years as the religion continues to spread to central Africa. David Sharry, a sixth year graduate student in near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, thinks he understands why. But, he says, "it's not the kind of thesis where I'm constantly looking for books--there isn't very much written on the subject." Instead, Sharry has culled his data from a series...