Word: norms
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Michael Lawrence, VES’ undergraduate academic coordinator, says Mitchell has been “extraordinarily tough to get in touch with” as Lawrence prepared the course catalog, but he adds that this was not far out of the norm for VES’ many visiting faculty...
...horror stories about the mental health response of House tutors and senior tutors who have ignored cries for help, failed to uphold confidentiality and mistreated friends and roommates of students suffering from mental health problems. While I have to assume, and desperately hope, that these stories are not the norm, a mental health professional in each House would be far superior to what we have now. Anything else leaves students short changed...
Indeed, both Gore and Porter-Lipscomb are African American, meaning Banks-Johnson was placed into an all-black first-year dorm room. Porter-Lipscomb says same-race dorm rooms were the norm on campus and that certain Houses—including Leverett—were known to have larger populations of minority students while others—such as Eliot and Winthop—housed hardly any minorities...
Even the pranksters who try to join, if only to defy the norm and quit on their own volition, take the time to compose lists that they feel are quality—playing along with the crew’s false game of “there is such a thing as unassailably good taste, and I am as good as if not better than you.” Few people ever seem willing to divorce themselves from “their” music...
...It’s easy to see how extending library hours would make a significant difference to the lives of students at a college where studying long hours is the norm. Almost all students here live on campus, many of whom do not have singles, and there is a conspicuous paucity of common space conducive to studying...