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While Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who sits on the Ivy League policy committee which recommended a five-week break, says he realizes athletes aren’t going to “stop dead in their tracks and going to go study for all seven weeks,” he thinks the ruling will cut back the intensity “some...
...attitude sets boomers apart from their parents, who have traditionally been content to travel, golf and play a lot of pinochle. The emerging retirement ideal is far more active. The University of Miami Institute for Retired Professionals arranges for anyone over 50 to audit regular university courses or take five-week summer sessions, with such classes as creative writing, literature, drawing, computers and a newly added course on Middle East politics and Islam. "A lot of folks are here every day," the institute's director, Noreen Frye, says of the over-50 set. "Others are active with their church...
Much of the early training is to prepare cadets for a five-week “Advanced Camp” during the summer after Army cadets’ junior year...
...more than 700 managers. Then in mid-January, Schwab said it would pay first-quarter bonuses in stock, not cash. And just last week, the company told roughly half its 2,600 "nonessential" employees--those not involved in customer support--to take three unpaid Fridays off during a five-week period starting Feb. 2. Schwab quickly had to scrap the Friday plan for legal reasons. The leaves will now be "voluntary...
...Owusu, who teaches graphic arts, will be teaching the visual arts unit for the school five exploratory this spring. He says he is looking forward to the class but he wants to cover painting, drawing and sculpting and wonders if a five-week unit will allow students to get a feel for the visual arts...