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...hard, but working harder than one’s classmates. This discourages cooperation. When students are measured against an absolute standard, which is often set very high, they are encouraged to work collaboratively and think creatively, better serving the overall end of education.The most obvious solution would be a quota system similar to Princeton’s, which caps A-range grades at 35 percent of all grades given. If such a solution were implemented, however, students would likely shy away from competitive courses and become hypercompetitive when taking such a class is unavoidable. The situation would escalate into...
...Cannes regular described Oldboy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers - and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of the genre...
...Cannes regular described Oldboy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers - and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of the genre...
...based on their GPA after five semesters. The number of students nominated in each of the three broad areas—natural science, social science or humanities—is based on the percentage of students enrolled in each concentration within the class. Phi Beta Kappa sets up a quota for each of the fields in order to ensure parity across these categories. Those students with the highest GPAs are then nominated...
...overcome before graduation: obtaining work visas. Despite the College’s efforts to expedite the application process for its students, only a handful of seniors were able to submit their petitions in time to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which announced Tuesday that its 2008 fiscal year quota for H-1B visas had already been filled. USCIS began accepting applications on April 2 and had already received approximately 150,000 applications for the 65,000 visas by that afternoon, according to a press release. “This is what everyone expected,” Dean...