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...survey consists of 20 questions, each assigned a different point value based on its relative importance to campus life. Some of the more heavily weighted questions included the ratio of computers to students, and the availability of streaming video and audio of courses online. The questions asked whether the school has a wireless network and whether students can register for classes online...
...quite literally, “Bring Girls!” These practices encourage the myth that the number of girls a guy can convince to accompany him to a party is an indicator of his worth. Some organizations even go to extreme lengths to increase the girl to guy ratio. In order to attempt to decrease the number of (male) party crashers, these groups inform their members of parties via last second phone calls. This situation is not exclusive to Final Clubs. It is the state of college parties as a whole...
...simple truth is that bad TFs will always persist at the College. A large research university, even with a faulty-student ratio as low as Harvard’s, will have to tap grad students to teach. But as we have insisted for years, the College can do much more to make TFs better teachers than endowing prizes or offering brief crash courses on grading, which will undoubtedly be easy for grad students to coast through...
...from our three perimeter spots,” Sullivan said. “We’re letting the four and five man handle the ball a bit more this year and create passing angles that will allow them to finish plays off this year, but still assist-turnover ratio as a team was bad. It doesn’t reflect any improvement over where we were last season, and most significantly the one, two and three men are not generating many assists...
Here's a promising screen: we looked for dividend yields of between 2% and 4% (the S&P 500's yield is 1.68%), long-term earnings growth of better than 10% and a consistent hike in dividends. We looked too at the payout ratio--the percentage of earnings that is paid out in dividends. The lower the ratio, the easier it is for companies to meet their dividend obligations. Payout ratios vary by industry, but generally speaking, 50% or more is considered sizable; 75% or higher may be a red flag...