Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps we are just impatient with our information sources as well. While we complain as students that we are isolated from the rest of the world and often have no idea of the news, it may be our fault for wanting everything to be packaged neatly into 30-second soundbites that provide a synopsis of the world's events. But why is our generation blamed for our shorter attention spans when that is a trend for the rest of the country...
...spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively pushing it, without much success...
...American people are pragmatic, and if you show them that a new idea works, they...
...opened my mouth and said it was a good idea," the professor said, and that was all the encouragement Phalen needed...
According to Valasco, the group chose those who seemed most comfortable with the idea of being silly and who appeared to think independently. IGP's auditions only take place in the fall...