Word: randomized
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...council is already financially limited compared to other Ivy League student governments, but the way it disperses limited funds doesn't help the situation. In a year when most student groups received about $250 from council coffers, the council has also spent $340 of student money on its own "random acts of kindness," and $1,000 to send four of its delegates to conference many of its members say is useless...
Robert S. Schwartz '00, who chairs thecouncil's finance committee, says it is oftendifficult to determine what the council should setaside money for. Neither the Ivy Council trip orthe random acts of kindness program used all themoney that was allotted for them, but the leftovermoney cannot be used until next fall...
...random acts of kindness [bill] is toughbecause you want students to be appreciative ofstaff," Schwartz says. "But do we have to do itusing $350? I'm not so sure...
...Random Acts of Kindness "Youwant students to be appreciative of the staff. Butdo we have to do it using $340? I'm not sosure."--Robert S. Schwartz '00, EliotCrimsonAmelia E. MorrowShort Line at the Polls? Turnout figuresfor the Undergraduate Council's representativeelections last fall...
...fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever further toward the fringes of popular culture...