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...editors: Kathy Lin wrote a excellent analysis on Asian diversity in her article “Color and Variation” (column, Oct. 10). It helped me to understand the many misconceptions about Asian achievement in America and in particular in American higher education. Her legwork in breaking down the different ethnic groups of Asian students should be required reading by all college admissions officers. As a college admissions consultant with several Asian clients it helped me immensely to understand that lumping all Asians together under one banner is dangerous and misleading. I would venture to say that most Asian...
...Needing to kill, but hoping to be caught, Erica waves clues about her crimes in the face of a sympathetic detective (Terrence Howard). He's good at his job, but she's better: with a little legwork, she tracks down her husband's killers. Whether or not Erica wants revenge, the genre does, and the movie must oblige, in a climax that fatally ups the implausibility quotient. The movie finally buys the old right-wing argument that a conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged...
...project was the brainchild of municipal officials. "We never go in and say that we had this idea, and we want to do this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism supporters are quick to point out indirect benefits too. "Americans don't have the best reputation in the world right now," says Doug Cutchins, director of social commitment at Grinnell College and co-author of Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others. "For Americans...
...originally proposed in April as a part of the UC’s platform for “Mental Health Awareness Month.” Rebecca L. Eshbaugh ’07, co-director of the Room 13 counseling center, credited the new Web site with doing the legwork that previously hindered students’ ability to find available resources tailored to their needs. “I can definitely imagine how it would be difficult to find the right resources if you didn’t know what you were looking for,” she said...
...allocate the funds needed to reward the development of new and exciting classes and pedagogical methods, and he or she must make doing so one of the top budgetary priorities.Tenured professors, however, are often not the best people to teach broad introductory courses that require a lot of legwork to found and run. Beyond juggling teaching, research, and advising, most professors are specialists and want to teach a course focused on the particular area in which they are an expert, which explains why so many Core courses are narrow and specific. There is, however, a clear solution: The new dean...