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...notion that a liberal education can be gated into the Yard and boxed off into neat slots on a weekly planner is nonsensical. Just as anyone with an iota of intellectual curiosity does not "stop" educating herself after getting a degree, anyone who is a member of society (as we all are) does not "stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time...
...time delivery. And in another burst of ghastly work-related violence, a Milwaukee, Wis., mail handler killed himself and a co-worker last month. Union leaders are becoming bellicose over what they call management's failure to share bonuses with workers. "The labor-relations climate hasn't improved one iota," says crusty Moe Biller, 71, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which has threatened labor disruptions if it cannot settle its current contract negotiations by fall...
...member of the Phi Iota Alpha fraternity says the organization does not permit brothers to drink while wearing the fraternity's letters...
...This is an honor that carries with it no tangible prize," said Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Engell '73, who is the president of the society's Alpha Iota chapter. "It is similar to...an achievement much like a laurel, so to replace it with something concrete would be to devalue...
Until July 1995, male and female students were selected separately for admission to the honor society. The selection process for the male Alpha and female Iota chapters was merged in accordance with the integration of Harvard and Radcliffe colleges, according to Kobrinsky...