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Whatever the reason for bullying, the consequences are clear. Nishina found that victims feel sick more often than their classmates do, are absent more often and tend to have lower grades. They are also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going...
...They didn’t take it too well when I told them that,” Wheeler says of his parents’ reaction. “That’s definitely the worst part of doing it—seeing the people that you care about worried. It is, for them, probably more of an adjustment than...
...uses the relations among his female characters to highlight racial diversity, conflict, and integration. The attempts of Lynn—the only white hairdresser at the shop—to assimilate with the predominantly African American group of hair stylists is handled interestingly and honestly by Woodruff. As a reaction to her exclusion, Lynn changes her squeaky clean image, culminating in a particularly funny dance sequence. (Unlike some hokey dance routines in movies like Hitch, Silverstone, making a great comeback from Clueless, pulls off a physically-challenging Harlem shake...
It’s not just copyright, either: many have had a similarly dissonant reaction to the HBS admissions hacking incident of last month. All the now-Harvard-rejects did was guess at the address for a page that was already available on the net—it’s as if you had guessed the six-digit code number for this article and found it before it was linked to from the Crimson’s online front page (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, browse to this column...
...reaction from faculty wasn’t universally favorable. John Womack Jr. ’59, Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, characterized the CCSR’s decision as “hypocrisy...