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...Senior Gift Committee is aiming for every graduating senior to donate at least $10, especially after the Class of 2009 broke previous records with a 74.1 percent participation rate. Students can choose to give to financial aid, the Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Experience, or a pool of unrestricted funds to be used where money is needed most this year. Past senior gift donations have helped fund new projects, including the Queen’s Head Pub and the Women’s Leadership Conference. But perhaps more important than the immediate benefits to the College...
Bell attributes the gender gap at the school in part to the limited pool of female talent, explaining that “because there is pressure across all institutions to hire women, they’re in great demand...
...Minority Park, an "ethnic theme park" that actually encompasses five Dai villages (Mie Duc Hong's community is one of them), the annual tradition has strayed furthest from its tranquil origins. There, the water-splashing portion of the festival is organized in a shallow pool every day at 3:30 p.m. Cable describes the spectacle as a "large-scale wet-T-shirt contest." For $5, tourists can rent plastic basins for splashing each other and scantily-clad Dai women. "Authenticity is much less important than entertainment in China," says Cable. "Tourists don't come to see authentic rituals. They come...
...think it affected us a lot,” sophomore Shannon Purcell said. “Their pool, it’s very similar to a backyard pool. They practice in it all the time, so they know how to play with it, but we don’t practice in a shallow pool, so it was really different—like shooting on [the shallow net], because the goal is two feet higher and the goalie can jump off the bottom of the pool...
Saturday wasn’t just the first time the Crimson played in a less-than-ideal pool this season, but it was also the first time it faced its northern...