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...handwritten letter to the Student Receivables Office is not an extremely difficult task. These people would miss the point. The UC shouldn’t look on in silence while the administration limits their constituency’s freedom with regard to the fee’s payment. Such quiet complicity makes the Council appear desperate for funding, and happy to wrest money from students who otherwise wouldn’t want to pay. The UC constitution claims that it represents the entire undergraduate student body, not just students who fund it. Even if the UC doesn?...
...millennial work so bracing. The ballad-esque “Street of Dreams” begins like the lush “November Rain” from “Use Your Illusion I”—a few lines of piano and quiet guitar—but winds up mired in a boring melody and terrible lyrics: “What I thought was beautiful / Don’t live inside of you / Anymore.” “Madagascar” sees Rose sampling Martin Luther King, Jr. while singing about his mid-life crisis...
...quiet in Cheddar City. Cheese also ranks as one of the most despised books. It has been castigated as obvious, insulting. Many of its critics are people who have had copies of Cheese forced on them by overzealous bosses, sometimes even as they were let go. (Which means next year could be a big one for Cheese.) Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and a chronicler of cubicle life, says, "Maybe a hundred people have suggested I mock it--which I have done." Others have parodied the book (Who Cut the Cheese? and Who Stole My Cheese...
...involves striking balances—between academics and social life, between individualism and community, between personal growth and shared experience. In undertaking renewal of our Houses, we are committed to maintaining and enhancing the faculty and adviser interactions that House life encourages, while recognizing the need for privacy and quiet spaces. Our plans must recognize the place the Houses hold in our history even as they clear the way for future growth—both personal and physical. Our living spaces must support our ambitions for scholarship even as they foster our students’ health—physical, emotional...
...intent of criminalizing gays. One Rome-based priest was disappointed that the Vatican decided to publicize its opposition to what appears a rather innocuous declaration. "When you're always trying to look for new ways to make your point, you lose credibility," says the priest. "Better sometimes to keep quiet...