Word: formality
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...divestment from the oil stock PetroChina, a company involved with the Sudanese government’s ongoing genocide in the western region of Darfur. Since then, other universities and even states have pulled their funds from companies tied to Sudan. Although Cambridge city councillors said there are currently no formal plans for the city to follow Providence’s lead and begin a national trend of city divestment, at least one councillor expressed interest in looking into the possibility. Cambridge holds stock through its pension fund, but city officials said they could not yet determine whether any part...
...community service opportunities offered by the Phillips Brooks House. On the organizational level, political groups would do well to organize community service days designed to educate their membership about an issue they’re working on. Additionally, they might extend such efforts, many of which happen already, to formal partnerships with direct-service groups that frequently undertake this sort of work—and then, perhaps, invite those groups to work with them on a political project of some form...
...wait for the rest of the kids to catch up." His sister Joanne, meanwhile, was struggling in Year 3 and feeling stupid, and her parents pulled her out at the same time. Today, in their new home in Colebrook, north of Hobart, none of the Devenishes' eight children attends formal classes. "We help them excel at what they're good at and work on their weaknesses," says mother Helen. Joanne, she adds, never took to intellectual pursuits, but at 18 she sews and bakes bread and helps her six-year-old sister learn to read...
...barriers that limited people's choices about where and what they could study. In the new global village, Barratt-Peacock wonders, how long before a teenager in Christchurch, working from the computer in his bedroom, can attain a Harvard degree? "The idea of learning only in a large, formal institution with lots of other people . . . that is going to change." It's hard for outsiders to accept home education, which challenges so many fixed ideas. Teachers teach and parents raise. School is a societal glue. Brothers and sisters singing together is a little too twee. If society's aim with...
...presidential search committee. To no one’s surprise, no student or faculty names were nestled among the six Corporation members and three Overseers mentioned in the announcement. Included in the statement, however, was a move unprecedented in recent Harvard history but stale news at peer institutions: a formal advisory role for faculty and students, in the form of two respective advisory committees. While we welcome the opportunity for formal student input on a matter of such great import to the entire University community, we cannot help but be concerned that the “advisory” function...