Word: perring
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...Logging on to the Ivy League" [April 27]: Granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today - notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
DeVries says that organic techniques can be part of the solution, but won't be enough on their own. An American farm uses about 90 lb. (41 kg) of fertilizer per acre per year. In Africa, the average is a little more than 3 lb. (1.4 kg). "In some parts of the United States, overutilization of fertilizer may indeed have become an environmental problem," says DeVries. "In Africa we're seeing that underutilization is the problem." When degraded soil blows away, frustrated farmers turn to the forests for more land. A farmer applying as little as a coke-bottle...
...more effort, but others will just rush through,” Ge said. “Hopefully, hiring fewer workers will make sure that the graders are more willing to work hard.” Because each grader will be expected to work more nights, the number of students per grader will remain the same, said Ge. Though graders said they thought the reforms were well-intentioned, some expressed concern over the staff reduction. “I just hope I’m hired next year,” said current test grader Eliza A. Lehner...
...While reducing staffing in the advising office, it would also be wise to cancel Rinere’s brainchild, the wasteful Peer Advising Fellows program. The PAF program enrolls about 190 upperclassmen and pays them $1,000 per year. By contrast, the old prefect program, which accomplished the same goals, cost the College virtually nothing. With Rinere leaving, there is no reason not to go back to the day when the only thing that upperclass mentors earned was the right to eat in Annenberg...
...made the All-Ivy First Team, one of the Crimson’s six all-league selections. In her rookie season, Brown shattered the Harvard single-season strikeout record, recording 211 on the season. Her total was tops in the league, and she ranks ninth nationally with 9.8 strikeouts per game, another Crimson single-season record. Brown finished the season with a 16-7 record and a 1.49 ERA in 28 appearances. Her four saves were good for 10th-best in the nation. She pitched 15 complete games on the season, including two shutouts, three two-hitters and a pair...