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...identify students based on their e-mail address. Furthermore, this change will aid in contacting students, if their name—but not their e-mail address—is known. We fear that if given the opportunity to fully customize their e-mail addresses, incoming freshmen might opt for confusing or inappropriate tags, such as “drew.faust@college” or “beer@college,” only to regret it when they find themselves applying for jobs in four years. We look forward to seeing the results from the pilot program this fall...
...expected to pass the measure next Sunday after it has gone before the Finance Commitee (FiCom). UC Treasurer Anthony R. Britt ’10 said the UC’s overall budget increased by 11 percent this year. Britt said the increase could be attributed to fewer students opting out of the Student Activities Fee on their term bills. Last year, 12.3 percent of undergraduates opted out of the annual $75 fee compared to 6.5 percent from this year, according to Britt. A lower rate of opt-out may be due to changes by the Student Activities Office...
...their class years. Several council members also expressed reservations as to why the College hadn’t simply adopted a Gmail-powered system given the popularity of the Google webmail program among the undergraduates. “[FAS IT] is going to have trouble getting 1,600 people opt-in to the program,” Rose said, adding that he would “doubt that they’re anywhere near that number yet.” But Sundquist said that he’s looking forward to using a “new and exciting?...
...yore, when college kids spent evenings analyzing poetry in professors' quarters. Research indicates that students are more likely to be satisfied with school and become campus leaders if they spend time with faculty. Which is why the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville created Core Connections, which lets mostly freshmen opt to live in two dorms where attendance at faculty-planned events is required. The University of Maine now makes all frosh live together in dorms with new support networks. Ditto for Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where first-years are also encouraged to go on hikes with the profs...
...going to have to rebalance their portfolios to remain properly diversified and in line with their goals. "You can have an extremely negative view of the economy and use that to say, 'I am not going to go anywhere close to consumer discretionary stocks,'" says McManus. He'd opt for consumer staples instead, as well as health care, utilities and perhaps some beaten-down market sectors such as energy...