Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State of mind after the Harvard-Yale game last week: the Crimson is beaten in the final two minutes, Yale's administration actually subsidizes the alcohol for campus parties, and its students get a whole week off for Thanksgiving break: it was not a happy time to be a member of that "excellent school in the Northeast...
Somehow, I doubt that institutionalized cramming-time was what the administration had in mind. Clearly, however, students often treat it as such. And when undergraduates choose not to spend their reading periods cramming, they use it to visit friends at other schools. To clarify matters here are the words of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, (taken from an e-mail message), associate dean of undergraduate education: "Reading period is meant to be an integral part of the term, [it is not] not meant as a time to catch up after ignoring work during the term. Perhaps we should...
Meanwhile, Rollert is one of Seton's closest confidants. When Seton agreed that a campus-wide referendum was the best way to decide on a term bill increase, reversing his own position, he credited a conversation with Rollert as partly responsible for his change of mind...
...there have been both inflation and an increase in the number of student groups since then, so there is no question that the present fee is not adequate to meet the same needs it met 11 years ago. Nor is there any question in my mind that the money returned to student groups is (for the most part) well spent and broadly advantageous to the student community. The question is not whether more money should be spent, but how much, and where it should come from...
...April 1998, one month before Kipland Kinkel embarked on a shooting rampage in Springfield, Ore., that killed his father, mother and two students and wounded 25 others, he yelled out in class, "Goddam these voices in my head!" He was disciplined for swearing, but no one paid much mind to those voices...