Word: genericism
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...faculty whining, backbiting and petty betrayals. So essential are these activities to college life that online universities ought to plan on finding their equivalents rather than doing away with them. A video could be created consisting of a generic professor who complains (sotto voce) about the stupid administration, the moronic students, his awful colleagues and the fact that one of them is paid $100 more than he is; then he could wind up by telling what he overheard someone say to someone else about someone else. A video like that would mean...
...issue visas allowing them to visit the U.S. for two weeks to keep the boy company. While the Miami relatives are certain to pursue their efforts to keep Elian on these shores, for the GOP leadership and the Cuban-American activist community the emphasis may shift to a more generic campaign against both Fidel Castro and the Clinton administration. MORE...
...point, whether or not being intellectual and being social complement each campus (in the absence of actual frats), whether the workload is manageable (and under what conditions do you find it so or not so), and whether you've found the profs and courses interesting on the whole. All generic questions, I know, but they're pretty all-encompassing anyway. As such, if you're getting this, I found you on the College Democrats, Dissent, or Debate Society webpages, all of which I'm thinking about getting involved in with various amounts of seriousness...
...Skulls, a recently released teeny-bopper thriller starring "Dawson's Creek" heart-throb Joshua Jackson, is supposedly based on the real Ivy League experiences of both the movie's director, Rob Cohen, and writer-producer, John Pogue. The movie delves into the world of elite "secret societies" at a generic Ivy League institution called Y University (although the shots of the unmistakably dingy streets of New Haven make the connection relatively simple, not to mention the school's blue and white colors and bulldog mascot...
Though every applicant fills out a generic GSAS application, the admissions process itself is extremely individualized, from department to department and from person to person...