Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program consists of both alcohol out-reach groups which sponsor question and answer sessions at campus dorms and fraternities, and a network of students trained as peer counselors, who give support and respond to concerns about alcohol abuse...
...peer counselors and outreach groups were instigated in 1978 when Norman Carpenter, a Dartmouth alumnus, wrote to the school saying that his drinking problems stemmed from habits he learned as an undergraduate...
Aside from the exigencies of competition. Texas A&M's chief factor in calculating salaries for its professors is individual achievement, says Groot. "After we've considered the competition, to figure the rest of the salary increase we strictly look at merit--peer evaluations and specific accomplishments...
...precise gauge for measuring success. Quantity is no-clear indicator: while one professor churns out a stream of papers, another may be hidden in a laboratory quietly curing cancer. As for quality, that is something only an academic's colleagues can judge, not his administrative superiors. But even peer judgments are imperfect in academia, suspect as they usually are to internecine methodological disputes...
...WALLS of the chambers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives are lined with paintings depicting the proudest moments in the formation of this state's government, and in the role the state played in creating the federal government. Pilgrim fathers, colonial governors and leaders of the Revolution peer down from their stately poses onto the 160 polished wooden desks. The artworks serve mainly to commemorate the honorable men whose ideals and competence shaped a two-century legacy. But sometimes they provide a humbling contrast with the often politically less-principled actions of their modern-day successors...