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...their main promise. Upon taking the council’s helm, Riley sent a message to UC’s e-mail list announcing a plan to reform campus-wide social programming by collaborating with the CLC, student groups, the administration, and the student body. This plan came to fruition in April when the UC voted to cede responsibility for campus-wide social events to a board that would later become the College Events Board (CEB). Following an announcement by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 that the College would fund the board with...
...Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 supported the idea, but was skeptical that it would come to fruition...
...That falls in line with what Princeton professor Daniel Kahneman coined "the availability heuristic": the concept that if people can think of an incident in which a risk has come to fruition, they will exaggerate its likelihood. "Somehow the probability of an accident increases [in one's mind] after you see a car turned over on the side of the road," says Kahneman, who won a 2002 Nobel prize for his work. "That's what availability does to you: it plants an image that comes readily to mind, and that image is associated with an emotion: fear...
...first half 220-169 and never led at the break. “[Last year] is a huge motivation for us this season,” Hallion said. “Last year we knew that we were very talented and none of our real goals came to fruition. Having that experience really makes you not take what you have for granted and really makes you focus on what you can do to not let your chances slip away.” The year of experience—and the memory of a 2006 season gone awry—will...
...turns out a lot of people want to have sex in the Lamont Café. (Or at least are willing to claim that they do.) If even a quarter of the solicitations made on boredatlamont.com ever came to fruition, Lamont would devolve into an orgy that would make the most progressive libertine blush...