Word: functions
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Quite simply, reading period is too long. Because of its length, reading period does not function as it is supposed to: an independant study time for finals. Instead, we're working on papers or actually attending class through the first week of reading period. Many people treat reading period as if only the last week counted--we may as well make it one week long. Since we just ended classes, it's not like fall semester where we need a reintegration time after winter break. No, now the first week is just extra time for angst...
Java is a programming language that allows small programs to be transferred from a Web site to your computer. And frames give a Web designer more flexibility by giving a page multiple sections that function independently from each other...
...discontent, when the city with one of the nation's highest tax rates ran out of money and stopped providing some basic services. The streets are almost never clean (grit and cigarette butts blow up from littered gutters on K Street), only 40 of the 104 garbage trucks function, and during the winter's snowstorms some city buses made up their routes according to which streets were passable. (Only 1 in 3 plows worked.) Now that it's spring, there are so many deep, unrepaired potholes that some neighbors have banded together to patch their own; others have resorted...
...want to implement a new and entirely different vision of the form and function of our student government. I am multifaceted and will not get so caught up in school politics that I will lose sight of making the College a more livable place...
...answer is that such a dichotomy is untenable. The council's function is to represent students, nothing more, nothing less. That means fighting for longer library hours, sponsoring shuttle buses and purchasing change machines. But equally important is making sure that the University doesn't contract with human rights violators and that students have real power regarding administration decisions that affect them. How do you achieve the proper balance? Here are a few suggestions...