Word: logical
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Graduate students are supported not by a salary, but by a stipend. They teach undergraduates as a part of their financial aid packages that forgive the thousands of dollars in tuition they would otherwise pay. This logic does not escape Yale University, even if GESO leaders don't grasp it. While students rallied to support clerical and technical workers' attempt to unionize in 1984, few students support GESO's efforts...
While most of the nation depends upon Punxatawney Phil to herald the arrival of spring, Radcliffe's crew operates independently of any groundhog logic...
...from (or to) the Quad, have already submitted their forms to the great equalizer: the God of Randomization. Although the hardcore statistics majors (all three) and other naysayers resign themselves to pure happenstance, others on campus try desperately to beat the odds. These go-getters attempt to battle the logic of randomization with pure superstition. Is this at odds with the student body's veneer of educated objectivity? Not al all. As one first-year put it, "The whole randomization process is about numbers, so it there's any way to beat it, numerology would...
Erica S. Schacter's editorial "More Courses in the Core" (ed., Mar. 21, 1995) makes an interesting and valuable addition to the debate on the validity of the Core as an entity and the logic of the requirements as they currently stand. She misses, however, an important point. Although humanities courses cannot be substituted for core requirements, core classes themselves can often be used to fulfill humanities concentration requirements. Thus, for example, many a Social Studies concentrator fulfills part of his or her political theory requirement with a Moral Reasoning class, thereby killing the same proverbial two birds...
This too is a logic with which I am unfamiliar. Why not more broadly insist that students take a literature class, in the style of their choice, rather than limiting their options to those classes which qualify as Literature and Arts...