Word: recommended
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...gathered to formulate suggestions for how local groups can help encourage women to run for office and increase their chances of being elected. The report suggests that organizations connect women interested in running for office with others who have successfully been elected to political positions. In addition, the authors recommend providing frequent opportunities for politically-minded women to interact and build contacts. The students also encourage organizations to ensure that they properly document the techniques they employed and whether they have found them to be successful. “The more that there is an institutional memory and information...
...Professors receive no formal recognition for their work on theses, meaning that apart from the pleasure of teaching—something that shouldn’t be discounted—there is little incentive for faculty to advise them. While department heads sometimes recommend graduate students over professors, saying that they can devote more time to students, it’s unlikely that graduate students, who TF classes and are writing their own dissertations, are sitting on their hands. If they’re better advisers, it’s because they feel a greater sense of responsibility to students...
...such, the various political flare-ups and localized pressure points that pockmarked the globe this year can recommend nothing but caution; the virtues of prudence and measure assume special significance on the international stage...
...report suggests that organizations connect women interested in running for office with others who have successfully been elected to political positions. In addition, the authors recommend providing frequent opportunities for politically-minded women to interact and build contacts...
...Woodstock is that big open field outside. Woodstock was the last great event of the 19th century, a delayed outburst of Romantic-era communalism and nature worship. It was built on sentiments that aren't conveyed very well by institutional means. So if you visit the museum, which I recommend, here's what I would do: play with the interactive screens, admire the replica hippie bus, watch the film clips of Jimi Hendrix and Joan Baez and the Who. Then go outside, head over to the slope and lie facedown in the grass--preferably in the rain...