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...It’s worrisome that the numbers for study abroad are so low, even though the financial aid resources are clearly not lacking,” he says. “I think it would be good if living in a different society became a norm as much as possible...
Harris says the Freshman Seminar program had been expanding since before the review—this year, there are over 100 Freshman Seminar offerings—and that he feels it will soon be the norm that students take a freshman seminar...
...should be able to turn up my music because I like it.” (Ideally, then, I’d live alone in a warehouse.) The fact is that most of this stuff comes from club and rave culture, where booming soundsystems are the norm. Below a certain volume threshold, it loses effect—thus meaning—completely. Leftfield drum & bass producer Equinox makes dub basslines so deep (below 30 Hz) they’re barely audible at high volume on standard speakers. They’re meant to literally shake your body, seize your insides...
Wechsler, a champion of restrictions on alcohol supply, drew criticism from colleagues over the summer when he reported that “social norms” marketing, which promotes decreased alcohol consumption by sending students the message that heavy alcohol consumption is not the campus norm, is ineffective...
Compared to other colleges, Harvard’s Undergraduate Council fee falls well below the norm. Stanford University, Northeastern University and Boston College all have fees near the $100 mark, while Boston University and Dartmouth College have fees of $414 and $540, respectively, according to council data...