Word: packetizing
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...affirmation of the rights of campus gay students but instead with a paper solution that will please only administrators embarrassed by discussion of the issue. The Gay Students Association (GSA) several weeks ago asked Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, for permission to enclose a leaflet in registration packets. Though it amply documented the fact that other groups had been given similar permission in the past, Epps decided the time was propitious for a review of the rules. He discovered that all those other groups-controversial outfits like Phillips Brooks House and the Radcliffe Choral Society-had been given...
...culture of Harvard, there was still a lot of support for overt homophobic behavior,” he says.The first of a series of contentions erupted in November 1980 when the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life refused to include a leaflet from the GSA in its packet distributed to registering students. The committee avoided the issue by agreeing to send out a separate packet with information on all student groups.“I have to say on the whole that the students were far more sympathetic than the administration,” Schatz says.There was also an uproar...
...Jodi a sticker on a chart; with enough stickers she can choose a reward. ABA was once famous for its M&M rewards, but better programs now tailor positive reinforcement to the child's preferences--a favorite activity, a hug or, in the case of one Alpine student, a packet of ketchup. Though Jodi didn't talk at all until age 3, she speaks well and is mastering skills quickly with the help of two hours of tutoring in the evening. "From the moment she wakes up till she goes to sleep, everything is structured," says her mother Michelle...
...helpful for students suffering from their own problems. “Mental health is an issue that affects everybody,” she said. MHAAG members handed out a pamphlet titled “Mental Health First Aid: How to Help a Friend in Distress.” The packet addressed the issues of general distress, alcoholism, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and suicide, and presented ways to identify and cope with these problems. Attendees discussed their personal experiences with these issues and offered advice to one another. Burton recommended that individuals who are trying to help friends with mental problems...
...Fiery Furnaces “Bitter Tea” (Fat Possum) 4 Stars The press packet issued with “Bitter Tea,” the new album from art-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, contained a delightful little Easter egg: the transcript of an email written by Matthew Friedberger, the band’s lyricist and instrumentalist, to their publicist. The email contains the most pretentious bit of prose ever committed to the page (or monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here...