Word: greatly
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...conference was a great success, six days of purposeful activities and inspirational speakers, a gifted group of participants and a skillfully organized executive committee overseeing the whole thing. But lest you think this column is just an ad for the WLC (that's what my T-shirt is for), I wanted to write about the issues of feminism and politics raised in one of the speeches we heard, the keynote address by Marie C. Wilson President of the Ms. Foundation and of the White House Project. (She also helped create "Take Our Daughters To Work...
...support this latest move to reduce blocking group size. Sixteen-person blocking groups were simply too large. Rather than selecting a small group of potential roommates to enter the lottery with, many undergraduates sought to enter their new Houses with an entire social circle already intact. This represented a great obstacle to social mixing and has inhibited the development of a new, post-randomization House life. The ability to block with all of your friends certainly makes one feel safer and more secure, but the comfort of the individual student is not always the only consideration--increased community and diversity...
...some point--perhaps a blocking group of one?--individual suffering would clearly outweigh whatever speculative benefits are achieved by forcing students to find new friends. Are blocking groups of 10 or 12 such great obstructions to House community that they must be disbanded, regardless of the resulting inconveniences to individual students? Could eight actually be too many...
...Being 4-0 is a good confidence boost, but we can't ride on our record," Kalil said. "We're off to a great start, but we've got tough games coming up with Connecticut and Yale...
...Youth can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. The young guys really want to work hard when they're in the game, like Colin's performance this weekend--he played hard and had a couple of great games," Meagher said. "But it's going to be a learning process and mistakes will be made, it's just part what this team is right...