Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administrative Board's decision yesterday to force seven freshmen to withdraw for a year for sabotaging the College's computer system has prompted Weld North's roughly 90 residents to write a letter of protest to a top College administrator...
...leave for one year for crashing Harvard's computer system three times during the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) testing. One Weld Hall freshman will be put on probation for one year for helping crash the system one time, said Thomas T. Sugiura '89, roommate of two of the freshmen...
They then repeatedly printed out, "This computer test sucks," about the requirement, which more than 600 freshmen still had not passed, Sugiura said. The messages "got worse," he said...
School officials have ticketed the interest from $43 million for student aid, and have available the interest from an additional $30 million from the endowment. Some 400 alumni find recruits, and DePauw students stage phone-a- thons with prospective freshmen. Part of the push is aimed at leavening DePauw's in-state enrollments (37% of the student body) with outlanders, who now come from 40 states and 17 foreign countries. Next year's tuition will be no steal ($8,200), but 60% of DePauw's students...
...ended the private university's undergraduate education program and told the graduate schools of nursing, law, education and medicine to pay their way. He stopped admitting virtually any warm undergraduate body that showed up, and began cutting enrollment from 12,000 toward 8,500, setting stiffer standards for entering freshmen. At the same time, Miami established schools of communications, architecture and international studies. Associate Provost James Ash openly admits that the purpose of the changes has been to sell the school to a higher grade of students. "It's not that we're virtuous," he says. "Marketing conditions force...