Word: informers
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First, the council needs to better inform incoming students about what it does and why it is important to participate. Aside from a small booth at the activities fair and a notice buried deep in the Yard Bulletin, student government did almost nothing to reach out to students during Freshman Week. The council should be more proactive about reaching out to first year students when they arrive. The involvement of student leaders during that first week would lead to discussions about student government and segue naturally into the elections, which would be more substantive. Also, informing students about the role...
...Self-Promoter. This specimen masks his arrogance by feigning sincerity and the suggestion that he intends to clear up confusion through his immense wisdom. His real goal is to inform the class of how erudite he is. Recently, in my section for Foreign Cultures 82, “Modern Arabic Narratives,” a student responded to another student’s interpretation of a text. “If you’ve ever read this book in Arabic”—clearly The Self-Promoter had—“you would realize that?...
...elite college with its roots in stodgy Puritanism, ritual human sacrifice to vengeful river deities ought to seem strikingly anomalous. Apparently no one has made it across the Charles River to inform the rowers of Newell Boathouse of the inconsistency...
...need look no farther than the Oval Office. Spring Davis Durham, North Carolina, U.S. What Surveys Show In "The Trouble With Polls And Focus Groups" [Oct. 4], columnist Joe Klein wonders whether focus groups have outlived their usefulness. They have, if candidates look to polls and focus groups to inform themselves about the right thing to do. But Klein shouldn't conclude that getting the public's opinion is no longer useful. When a candidate wants to persuade voters to agree with what he thinks is right, a focused group discussion (the original name for the technique) can be quite...
...rolled into Spokane, Wash., around 6 p.m. on a Tuesday. Spokane is one of those sleepy cities bursting with small-town pride--its residents will be glad to inform you, for example, that it's the smallest city ever to be host of a World's Fair--but it's a pretty quiet place on a Tuesday night. You can look both ways before you cross the street if you really want to, but it's just a formality. I sat on a park bench. A dude on the corner played the saxophone. Some punks on dirt bikes made...