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...will that interaction involve? Will anyone mediate such interactions, and what kinds of consequences might they have for all parties concerned? These questions were not only asked by students but by professors and administrators alike, who had not been informed or consulted about the hotline. For instance, in a letter to The Crimson, Director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning James D. Wilkinson ’65 wrote that the Bok Center, which the UC said was a “partner,” played no such role. We sympathize with the UC’s desire...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Hasty Hotline | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...another. Visual and Environmental Studies courses, Freshman Seminars, and many popular cores are capped. Such lotteries, however, are a standardized affair in which the major deciding factors are seniority, need, and chance. In the competitive world of creating writing, admission criteria are far more personal.The applications comprise a cover letter and a three- to five-page writing sample specific to the workshop. Often, the intensely personal nature of writing can make rejection from a workshop a singularly bitter experience, and application a sheer emotional impossibility.“The creative writing program discourages up-and-coming writers...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Track of One’s Own | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...product of her upbringing in working class Framingham. Only a few weeks into school, she drummed up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor responded by mockingly mimicking her accent. Humiliated by this degrading experience, she self-consciously introduced the letter “r” into her vernacular...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Culture Clash | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...this is just the sort of irrational opposition Harvard is bound to face as it marches into Allston. As a University, we will need to bridge the town-gown cultural divide if we wish to minimize the number of impediments politicos such as Galvin will surely impose. Banishing the letter “r” from campus is a sure-fire way to start...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Culture Clash | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...restored by a deadline set by the paper’s editors. That deadline passed at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, and editors say the lawsuit is moving forward. One week ago yesterday, The Missouri Miner—UMR’s student paper—sent a letter to administrators of both UMR and the University of Missouri system, stating their disagreement with a Student Council decision last November to cut the paper’s budget for the coming year to $26,000. The current year’s budget is $40,000. Yesterday at about...

Author: By Weslie M.W. Turner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Paper Plans To Sue Over Cuts | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

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