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...Toward the end of this portion, one contestant approached the panel and whispered, "Give me a low score. I don't want to be Miss USA. These people are all phonies." She said that her own bio was entirely fabricated, and that she couldn't quit the pageant because her sponsors would be angry. She was the only contestant I wanted to win, and even though I knew it would hurt her, I couldn't help giving...
Bial's exam, the Bial-Dale College Adaptability Index, has been nicknamed the Lego Test for a 10-minute portion that asks small groups of students to reproduce a relatively complicated Lego robot. One at a time, students are allowed to go and look at the structure, which is placed in another room, but they can't take notes. In another tested activity, students lead a group discussion on a topic drawn from an envelope. In both cases, observers are watching to see who takes initiative, who collaborates well and who is persistent...
Atkinson was addressing a situation that Conant and Chauncey didn't imagine. The SAT, now with millions of takers a year, has become a national fetish. A large portion of the high school student and parent population believes it is the main determinant of admission to a selective college, which in turn is the main determinant of one's eventual socioeconomic status (both propositions that the test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach...
...first photograph of this tryptich, a woman with dark brown hair and glasses sits on a bed, only the head of which is visible behind her. The center photograph presents another angle of the same room. A dresser is visible as well as a doorway, through which a portion of a darkened room can be seen. Through the doorway, a portrait of a mother and daughter is just visible. The last photograph depicts the same scene as the first, but the woman in this photo, although she looks similar, has gray hair. She is the first woman's mother...
...images painted by Ivy-skeptics of delegates' private drivers, dinners at Le Cirque 2000 and suites at the Carlyle appeal to the Progressive Era portion of our hearts. One is bound to ask, "How can student governments allocate limited funds for the extravagance of a privileged few?" The Crimson staff has already declared that a "weekend getaway with other college councils is not the best use of council funds...