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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...
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...
...youthful and liberal Uri Party, advised people in their 60s and 70s to "stay home and rest" instead of voting. As penance, Chung resigned his post as his party's campaign head and went on hunger strike. Yet in a land where political haplessness is increasingly the norm, his gaffe apparently failed to dent the party's standing. Instead, voters last week tripled the size of the Uri Party delegation, to 152, enough for a majority in the 299-seat assembly that has been dominated by a conservative Old Guard for more than four decades...