Word: formality
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...would resent her. “What helped me get over it was realizing that the guys didn’t care,” she says. “It wasn’t a huge deal to them.” The decorations on Sarvis’ formal dress uniform show how far she has come. She has four ribbons on her jacket, evidence of her athletic and academic achievement. On her shoulder is a braided rope, signifying her membership in Pershing Rifles, a military honors fraternity at MIT. The selection process is so intense that the majority...
...excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary foundational knowledge. History 10a aims to be “a survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.” Most students entering the College have had little formal exposure to such comprehensive material—and many want such an exposure. According to the CUE Guide, of the 143 students who enrolled in History 10a last year, 93 of them chose to take it to fulfill a Core requirement or as an elective. This alone should merit the continued staffing...
...look at the influence of the MBTA in students’ lives. The creation of the Silver Line has cut the time it takes to make the ritual commute to Logan from Cambridge almost in half. When students go to a House formal at a club downtown, the subway and T buses stop running by 2 am. Proposals to extend T hours are an issue that students should voice their opinions on. Likewise MBTA General Manager Dan Grabauskas has proposed a 25 percent increase in the cost of a fare on the T. Although this issue is not solely relevant...
What I propose is by no means a complete solution; For starters, I’ve completely disregarded the parallel concern of improving and expanding the pool of faculty advisors, who would and should continue to offer formal academic guidance to freshmen, to sign their study cards, and so on. There’s no question that progress must be made here as well, but a successful advising relationship with a faculty member would complement the far more important relationship between freshmen and their upperclass advisors and big siblings...
...There was no willingness to come to a practice, no formal introduction, and no recognition of [the JV program’s] existence,” he continued. “There are guys who are frustrated, not because we don’t get a chance to play, but because of his ignorance to the point of disrespect...