Word: reapings
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...already identified as a problem—for students caught in the transition period. In particular, seminars and classes without midterms and finals should not be categorically banned from counting. Making these changes now will drastically improve the academic lives of students who will not be able to reap the full benefits of the new general education curriculum.Petersen and Sundquist have two of these issues on their calendar. The UC should not, however, wait so long to get started, nor should its leaders insist on this restrictive one-issue-at-a-time approach. Unlike Crimson Reading and the teaching hotline...
Students who drink already reap the majority of the UC’s social generosity; however, the $75 opt-out student activities fee is charged to the termbills of drinkers and non-drinkers alike. According to the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, 50 percent of incoming freshmen identified as abstainers. Funneling the majority of party funds to venues where the primary focus is alcohol cuts off social options for students who choose not to drink. By funding more freshman parties, the UC is wisely extending a hand to a traditionally ignored demographic...
...efficient, less risky and paid in hard currency. But when the flow of money slowed and the warlords returned to opium cultivation as the U.S. turned its attention toward Iraq, whole provinces were back in the drug business and officials in Washington began to be worried the Taliban would reap the benefit. If it were a sovereign state, just the southern province of Helmand--a Taliban stronghold--would be the second largest source of opium in the world. The rest of Afghanistan would be the first. "The drug trade," Debat observes, "is the blood of the insurgency in Afghanistan...
...where—just a few miles away—public housing recipients fend off efforts by local and state officials to dislodge them from their homes. This is a place where redeveloped casinos—opened only months after Katrina—glitter along the coastline and reap profits off eager gamblers, while rural African American residents still struggle to replace the schools that were destroyed by Katrina...
...campaign was one of the best in the history of the Harvard men’s soccer team, which continues to reap the dividends of an Ivy League championship season. On Thursday, captain and two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Charles Altchek went to Florida for the Adidas Major League Soccer (MLS) Player Combine. During the holiday break, Ivy League Rookie of the Year André Akpan stayed on as one of 21 players training for the U.S. Under-20 National Team, from which one more player will be cut before the Jan. 17-21 CONCACAF qualifying tournament...