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...don’t have enough faculty to take on all of the creative writing thesis applications that we feel merit attention,” he said...
Consequently Europe is left with a constitutional proposal nearly immune to amendment (see article 443) that dooms the Union to the inertia of trade liberalization, and to economic muscle without any special political merit. Worst of all, the proposal is so hopelessly lengthy and technical that it is incapable of stimulating the least enthusiasm among European citizens. On February 20, 77 percent of Spaniards approved the treaty by referendum, but the turnout, at 42 percent, was the lowest of any national vote since the death of Franco...
...towns grew they added new schools. Odessa opened Odessa Permian in 1959. Midland opened Midland Robert E. Lee in 1961. The new schools stole the thunder from the old schools. An alumnus of old Odessa High said the other day, "Nobody wants to hear about our merit scholars or that our chorus went to Wales last year. All they talk about is Permian football." Today Odessa-Midland football means the Permian Panthers and the Midland Lee Rebels...
...encourage graduate students to work on more classes, spreading their resources too thin and leaving undergraduates neglected. Also, despite what graduate students are saying in their push for unions, it is likely that any union would push for a standardized pay system scale that is not based on teaching merit...
Instead of allowing graduate students to unionize, we believe that universities should be more responsive to their legitimate grievances and co-opt some of their suggestions—including a set pay scale that is merit-based and no compulsory teaching for financial aid—to preempt calls for unionization. This solution will improve the plight of graduate students, which will improve sections independently, and allow universities to create a system that best serves the needs of undergraduate education...