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...Chanel, Lagerfeld is carrying on the athletic tradition that Coco Chanel began in the 1920s. The latest addition for spring is a golf line in the house's classic signature black and white. Soon, high fashion may just be par for the course...
Likewise, we support the move to bring the natural and physical sciences up to par with the humanities and social sciences. For too long, science concentrators have been burdened with a disproportionate number of requirements outside their chosen field of study. Many of the Core areas overlap with non-science fields; whereas science concentrators are required to take three Literature and Arts courses, two Historical Study courses, one Moral Reasoning and one Foreign Cultures course. The newer, more equitable system is an acknowledgement that the hard sciences deserve just as prominent a position in the curriculum as the humanities...
...fail to realize the supreme inadequacy of the council’s current budget. At even the highest proposed annual rate of increase, six percent (a figure derived from the inflation index for Higher Education), it would take nearly 28 years for the council to have a budget on par with UPenn’s UA—class of 2032, this one?...
Although these statistics might make even a Hoopes prize winner uneasy, just because a student isn’t performing up to par doesn’t mean that he or she is immediately getting kicked to the curb. Midway through the semester, instructors are asked to alert the Registrar’s Office of any difficulties that a student may be having. According to Freshman Dean Wendy Torrance, the “hope is that students will meet with course instructors, advisers, and with us, to discuss what may be contributing to their poor performance.” Similar...
...second and final round of the two-day event, Klein couldn’t quite keep up the pace, but still managed to shoot a solid four over-par...