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...perhaps seems more appropriate, but equally unnecessary. Here we are in the 21st century and in case you hadn’t received the memo, women are now men’s profound equals in the academy—indeed, more than equals in some instances, like in the matter of what qualifications one must possess to be admitted into graduate study in the sciences...
...fulfill a Literature and Arts C requirement which as an English concentrator, I was previously exempt from. However, none of my five English credits satisfied the advisors at the Core Office. They did not ask for any papers produced in the classes or even syllabi. Those things hardly matter, after all, when, according to their reasoning, the lack of a final exam was a mortal sin for any class wishing to fulfill a Core requirement...
...price for their policies, they have no incentive to employ cost-effective security strategies; quite the opposite, people presume that if a policy is authoritarian and inconvenient, it must make us safer. So the political calculus is to take any step that could, just maybe, improve security, no matter what the cost...
...Going out?” That’s out of touch. “Getting wasted?” Waste of breath. If it’s Friday night (or Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday for that matter), cool college kids are ditching drinks and snubbing soirees, opting instead just to “rage.” Or go to a rage, host a big rager, be a big rager, or spend the night raging. Cocktail hour now screams country club, pre-gaming echoes back to the Yard, old-school partying is passé. So in the world of semantics...
...pages worked, initially brought the problem to Tom Reynolds, the New York congressman who runs the National Republican Campaign Committee tasked with getting members reelected. His decision to go to Reynolds first adds fuel to the charge that Republicans saw this as much a political problem as a matter of keeping children safe. With approval numbers for Congress lurking below 30% in most surveys, this kind of event, a month before the election, could reinforce a "throw the bums" out mentality that could result in a Democratic win in the House...