Word: midyear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, SHS membership was turning over at an alarming rate. Half the members left by midyear, Kyriazis said, further charging that many of them "used SHS as a stepping stone." Kyriazis also claims SHS floundered because the University wuld not grant them office space. Archie C. Epps, III, dean of students, in January assigned SHS a room in the Memorial Hall basement. Kyriazis marched into Rm 186 only to find it occupied by the Kuumba Singers. Epps said he thought Kuumba had moved a year ago. SHS is still on a list with 12 other new organizations looking for office...
...number of students getting medical excuses from midyear exams jumped 14 per cent from last year, administrators at the University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday...
...increase, from 456 to 528 students, conforms with a fairly steady rise over the last five years, Rhoda Neidorf, medical records administrator for UHS, said yesterday. Five years ago, during the 1973-74 midyear exam period, only 149 students "sicked...
...graduated second in his Riverside, Calif., high school class. "In the physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They are afraid, and they couple that with their uncertainty in social terms; half have never dated. Still, many students confide to me that they love it here. They'll say, 'It is the first place I have...
...carrot was conceived by Arthur Okun, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. In April. Brookings will hold a two-day closed-door seminar of economists to debate the Okun proposal; an open meeting of business and labor leaders is planned for midyear. Participation in his plan would be voluntary, but companies that held wage increases to 6% or less and price increases to 4% or less would be granted a 5% rebate on their federal income taxes. As an inducement for their cooperation, employees in such firms would get a yearly...