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Setting age limits that label some guests too senior for the prom is only one of the restrictions that school administrators have been imposing on students and their dates this spring. A growing number of schools also screen for alcohol at the door, require teens to sign drug-free pledges, ask parents to consent to their child's choice of date and in some cases even conduct background checks on outsiders invited to the event. The rules have sparked school-board showdowns across the country. Administrators say they just want to keep kids safe. Graduating 17- and 18-year-olds...
...that because she never got caught and some Mexican students did, the system was racist. After Maines joined the Dixie Chicks, and the Dixie Chicks became the biggest-selling female group in music history--with suspiciously little cash to show for it--she and her bandmates told their record label, Sony, they were declaring themselves free agents. (In the high school that is Nashville, this is way worse than skipping class.) Now that she's truly notorious, having told a London audience in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President...
...varsity heavyweights than Lake Quinsigamond. In four years, the Crimson first- and second-varsity boats have amassed seven Sprints championships, including three consecutive wins for the varsity from 2003 to 2005. Now, however, the Harvard varsity finds itself in an all-too familiar place but with an altogether new label at this year’s Sprints: that of underdog, one Harvard had shed in time to take the No. 1 seed into Sprints a year ago. The 2005 squad blitzed the field during the dual season to snatch the No. 1 ranking in the weeks before Sprints.This dual season...
...proposed requirements—a broad system of general distribution requirements, rather than the current Core—will not be in place for the next school year. In the interim, the Core Standing Committee (CSC), which is the group of faculty members that determines which courses garner the label “Core,” should expand the range of departmental courses that count for Core credit—and it appears as though it is poised to do so at its meeting tomorrow. The Core curriculum should be replaced with a system of distribution requirements where students...
...body and are commonly used as surfactants, have a "negligible" environmental impact. "All chemicals are toxic at some exposure, including salt and water," he told me, emphasizing, "The most important thing consumers can do to ensure the safe and effective use of a product is to read the label...