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...Senior Gift Committee made its annual rounds this spring, soliciting donations, at a $10 minimum, from graduating students. The fundraising drive is always controversial—students who have paid over $140,000 in tuition often question the reasoning that would have them donate even more before they start earning a paycheck. However, by asking for money before students are even out the door, the Gift Committee argues that its helps to build loyalty among alumni and establishes a life-long “pattern” of giving back to the University. The Senior Gift is only one manifestation...
University Health Services stayed open with a minimum of its staff and only accepted emergency cases...
...couple of years ago, for example, a San Francisco playwright named Joan Holden had the somewhat unpromising notion of turning Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book about her experiences as a minimum-wage worker, into a stage play. The result is an episodic but incisive series of vignettes about the impossibility of making ends meet while waiting tables in Florida, scrubbing toilets in Maine and stocking discount-store shelves in Minnesota. Nickel & Dimed has its deficiencies as drama, but it's a rare example of theater that tries to open people's eyes to the way life...
Angwin, a late-blooming fitness fanatic, is an exception to the country's otherwise alarming fat stats. More than 63 million Americans are overweight, according to government data, and only 1 in 4 adults satisfies the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of moderate activity most days of the week...
University Health Services stayed open with a minimum of its staff and only accepted emergency cases...