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...NCAA Division I board of directors was expected to explore instituting a series of proposals submitted by several Division I-AA football schools yesterday—proposals which would seek to increase the number of games between I-A and I-AA programs each year and blur the formal distinction between the two tiers...
...Night is a big draw for a good reason—it fills a key social niche that until now was empty. The social scene usually involves a rare dance or formal, exclusive final clubs, bars, or crowded hit-or-miss room parties. Pub Night is the first and only all-inclusive space where students can kick back, chat with friends (possibly over a drink), enjoy some music, dance, and mingle. It’s another option for your social life—you can just pass through or spend the whole night there, as will likely happen when other...
...while Batman’s nifty cape and superhero attitude go with the job, BAT team uniforms and professionalism are currently a touchy subject among HoCos, who are the BAT teams’ most frequent clients. “We’ll be having a formal,” Mark J. Stanisz ’05, former Lowell HoCo Treasurer says, “and they’ll show up completely out of character, wearing jeans and t-shirt...
According to Jundai Liu, the BAT team coordinator, BAT teams have a strict dress code for each event, and aside from one event last fall, she claims every BAT team member always dons formal dress for fancier events. Stanisz insists that BAT teams’ street clothes sightings are not as isolated as Liu believes...
...this argument sounds familiar, it should: Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto expresses a similar view in “The Mystery of Capital,” which pinpoints a lack of formal property rights as a main culprit behind the developing world’s stagnation. Like his compatriot, Vargas Llosa heaps praise on the ingenuity of Latin America’s poorest, especially the shantytown residents who have organized to provide basic services to the disenfranchised. Still, he considers them incapable of generating the sort of structural change key to breaking the region’s cycle of misery...