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...This isn??t raising the bar. It’s a diversion of attention from more serious structural failures in our education system. The final purpose of higher education is to provide an environment in which young adults explore and build according to their own plans. Though this process may be error-laden and oftentimes without a clear marketable value at its endpoint, it is a process which is crucial to personal development. The responsibility for ensuring that colleges perform as they should lies on the individual student. No administration from above can function well as a surrogate...
...entails whooping instead of whispering and will almost always feature Heineken over a hallucinogen. An improvement, some could say. A collegiate prerogative, you could argue. And it’s true that outward excitement sounds better than its experimental predecessor.But technically the word “rager” isn??t misleading: Late-night social events are often full of violent debauchery. Rarely does a house party pass without a few thrown punches. Chest shoves and blistered toes are the norm, screaming is assumed appropriate, and broken bottles signify accomplishment rather than an accident. Definitively immoderate and possibly...
...Life Committee that planned all those failures was jettisoned last May, and the new independently funded and elected College Events Board has replaced it. FiCom pools every student’s term bill fee and then decides how to dole out the money to student organizations. Some of this isn??t discretionary—House Committees and parties get a predetermined amount of money. But much of it relies on grant applications that FiCom members evaluate. The UC’s budget was $369,225 last year, so it’s a fairly important job. Because half...
Though Harvard announced plans to eliminate its early admissions program earlier this month, the decision isn??t exactly binding for highly touted prospective varsity athletes...
...giving incentives to kids in elementary school,” Fryer said. Karen C. C. Dalton, the Institute’s assistant director, is on medical leave, and William Casey King, the executive director will be leaving his post. King could not be reached for comment last night.Fryer isn??t the only faculty member taking up a new role at the Institute. Visiting Professor of Af-Am and of Romance Languages and Literatures Francis A. Irele and Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Tommie Shelby are the new editors of Transition Magazine, the Institute?...