Word: handicaps
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...many young Turks, inability to communicate effectively in the language of their adopted country is a real handicap, not just an inconvenience. It often means poor scholastic achievement and inferior educational qualifications. In 1998, only 14% of Turkish secondary school students qualified for university admission, compared to more than 30% of their German counterparts. "They come to school with incredible linguistic deficits," says Friedrich Maroner, the principal of Marxloh Comprehensive, where 65% of the 600 pupils are of Turkish descent. "It's impossible for us to ever work off those deficits with the staff resources we have...
...genuinely baffled by the staff's position on this issue. While the IOP may not be a "student group," scores of campus organizations seem toaccomplish their goals despite the handicap of selecting their leaders in open elections. The Crimson, for example, manages to put out a paperdaily even while engaging in the despised method of self-selection. Is democracy that much of a barrier to serving students effectively...
...Conversation For a Dollar to film festivals, setting up screenings for the film at colleges and cinemas throughout North America and selling videotapes of the film through its website, www.illcharacters.com. He has been working diligently at expanding the film’s reputation, despite his self-described handicap of being “an independent with no agent and no money.” In any case, he said, he intends to continue making films. Currently, he is fashioning a script about “a group of friends struggling to produce an independent hip hop album...
...most intense emotional response in the audience. When he applies this philosophy to the show’s technical elements, however, the result tends towards the literal and obvious. The splendidly demented use of the Beauty and the Beast theme is one of the few examples that transcends this handicap...
Larger departments have a natural handicap in meeting the kind of personal advising and mentoring many smaller departments offer, but that is no excuse for their apathy. As Lewis has noted in the past, departments can improve their advising even with a limited faculty-student ratio. The Department of English and American Literature and Language has made a number of reforms since 1997, assigning each student a permanent Faculty adviser and placing responsibility for undergraduate studies in the hands of a member of the senior Faculty. Failing departments--the sciences, government and economics, among others--should look to their successful...