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...Chao what obstacles she had faced as a result of her double minority status. “I have to confess to you, I hate that question,” Chao responded. Although she acknowledged that injustice sometimes exists in the workplace, Chao asked students not to overstate its impact. “You will find doors opening at every turn,” she said. “There’s nothing special about me,” she added. “That’s the great thing about America. You can be where...
...should accept any relevant courses for concentration credit—whether those courses are letter-graded or not—with the exception of foundational or introductory courses. Right now, the risk-taking it was meant to encourage remains limited purely to students’ electives, and has little impact on our serious academic pursuits, which all count towards the tyrannical...
...fairly straightforward—for instance, someone wants a summer school course to count for credit or to register late. But dealing with academic matters and student discipline often involves putting students on probation or encouraging them to take time off. This is weighty business that has a profound impact on the lives of the students on which the Ad Board passes judgment. And yet, unlike at many peer institutions, the Board does not have any student representatives.This is problematic because students can often provide a valuable new perspective, because they better understand the strains and stresses acting upon their...
...softball team’s 2-0 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday, freshman Lauren Murphy quickly established her place in Ivy League lore by breaking the conference home run record. Playing primarily in the designated player slot and batting third in the line-up, the rookie’s impact in the Crimson lineup has run deep. “She’s just stellar at the plate,” head coach Jenny Allard said. “This past week she’s really been focusing on her consistency, especially with her timing and her swing...
...TENET: Once you get very disruptive and you get inside the sanctuary and you catch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and you catch Abu Zubayda and you catch Abu Faraj Al-Libbi, once you start taking down senior operational planners, logisticians, financiers, then you start to understand your impact on the capability of an organization to do things because it's that operational level just below Bin Laden and Zawahiri that you care about the most. Is it a permanent kind of report card? No, because they're always going to try to reconstitute. The issue for them, of course...