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George M. Whitesides'60, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry, and Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson received the national Medal of Science, an award often called the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
Technology has made playing hooky all the easier. Most large lecture classes offer video- or audiotapes of lectures held on reserve in the libraries. Lecture notes, handouts and assignments are often posted on course Web sites. Most course logistics are handled by e-mail. And with digital submission of assignments in some departments, notably computer science, one could conceivably succeed in a course without ever setting foot in a classroom...
Wilson said a sense of "mystery" is perhaps the most important cause of democracy, noting the tension between the desire for individual rights and the acceptance of others'--often-conflicting--needs...
...people acquire a settled belief in their rights while at the same time recognizing that other people have rights, and often competing rights?" he asked, presenting the central question behind his idea of "mystery...
...while we support maintaining the 16-member blocking group option based on the principle of student choice, we concede that large blocking groups are not always the best answer. We recognize that the effect of students' living with their entire group of friends in the same house-and often also in the same entryway-is detrimental to their college experience and prevents the broadening of social horizons...