Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a lot to catch a busy student's eye, and campus posters are a remarkable testament to the fickle passions of the student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia...
...yesterday at the front door to Eliot House, something entirely new had burst onto the campus poster scene. Disguising itself as an ordinary poster, the blinding orange flier nearly blended in with all of the "Take Back the Night" posters until its bold, screaming words came into full view: "RESUME CONTEST...
...terms alone are shocking in their normalcy. Resume. Contest. Both are words that you'd expect to see on a poster, maybe even on the same poster, as in "To enter the Third Annual Edible Pre-Frosh Contest, send your resume to University Hall." Or "Prepare to witness a blood-chilling contest as the Women's Ping-Pong Team and their Princeton rivals resume their bloody battle of balls." But a resume contest...
...tested--reading, math, social studies and "total battery"--voucher students did no better than their public school counterparts. In fact, the only students who really stood out--for their weak performance--were those in the city's two Hope academies. The test scores of these students, who are the poster children for vouchers in Cleveland, were not just lower, according to the study, but "significantly and substantially lower" than those of public school students and of voucher students in other private schools...
...desk said she'd be back in 15 minutes. After about an hour, when l had determined that only three out of the "500 Reasons Why I’m Obsessive Compulsive" applied to me, l found myself studying the "Ziggy" ("Look Out World, Here l Come!") poster above her bed and abandoned the idea of meeting my host before dinner...