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With those two books out of the picture, the next step is easy. Disregard the "workload" or "difficulty" of a class. Use the course catalog to narrow classes into two genera relative to you: interesting (very small) and uninteresting (very large). Next, take the first genus and divide it into two species: difficult and easy. Now, start making calculated decisions about how much you want to read and write this semester. The worst mistake you can make during shopping period is to enroll in an uninteresting class because you've read or heard that...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: A Message From Your Personal Shopper | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

There is the short version of a successful shopping period: Narrow classes according to interest, and then consider difficulty. Yet this necessary step to an enjoyable semester is not a sufficient one. Smaller, but not unimportant, factors come into play as well. The obvious one is the time your class day will begin. Good courses (excluding introductory level math, science and language) are hard to come by before 11 a.m., a time which seems reasonable. If not, well, that's a personal problem...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: A Message From Your Personal Shopper | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...Court could rule at one of three levels of scope, from very narrow to quite broad. It could limit its decision to the Piscataway Board of Education; rule on the employment issues in the case; or speak at the most general level about affirmative action...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: High Court Will Rule On Merits Of Diversity | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...admissions process was heralded in the majority decision as the model to be followed-it will rely on the efforts of various higher education associations to present its view in this case. Twenty-five associations filed a brief two weeks ago that encouraged the court to issue a narrow ruling pertaining only to the specifics of the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

Rudenstine's concern that the court might expand its ruling beyond the narrow scope of the specific case is perhaps founded. In the caseHopwood vs. the University of Texas last year, the U.S. Third District Court's decision transcended the question of the case-whether the quota system employed by the University of Texas Law School was Constitutional--to outlaw any kind of preferences in admissions whatsoever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

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