Word: rigidness
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...make compromises of his own, like releasing long-serving prisoners who murdered Israelis. It's telling that while Israeli officials praised Abbas for sticking to the agenda at Sharm el-Sheikh--in contrast to Arafat's diversionary tactics--Abbas told a senior Fatah official that he found Sharon too rigid. "We are different personalities," he said. "I can't be a block...
...issue is the entire system of freshman dining, and to an extent the rigid social hierarchy at this institution. The social hierarchy at Harvard is well-defined, not by race or wealth, but by date of graduation. Quincy’s expulsion of freshman diners is just another example of the feeling of upperclassman entitlement and the barbaric belief that we must endure a year-long rite of passage in order to become full-fledged members of this college. Meanwhile, Annenberg food is infamously unappetizing, which serves only to exacerbate the freshman-upperclassman divide...
Perhaps worse than the bell curve’s rigid predestination is that the curve stifles students’ interest in the material and actually ensures a sub par effort from many undergraduates. A friend of mine recently provided me with an example. She was assigned her first paper for a class, and was determined to do well on it. She spent a week outlining, drafting, rewriting—making sure she had covered every point and counterpoint, every nuance in her paper. The result of this incredible effort was a B+. When the next paper was assigned, she decided...
...Whitefield, SAP relies on the area's computer scientists and engineers to carry out its most critical activity. More than 10% of the patents filed by SAP originate in Bangalore, and the influx of Indian engineers is accelerating the adoption of English at SAP and loosening up its traditionally rigid attitude toward software engineering, says Martin Prinz, the joint managing director of SAP Labs India. "The Bangalore center is starting to change...
...allowing students to pick up exams and test in shifts in the large lecture halls? And if FAS decides it doesn’t trust undergraduates not to divulge information about the contents of final exams to others yet to take them, why not set up a slightly more rigid system in which each exam is still scheduled for a certain day, but students can choose to take it in a morning or an afternoon shift? That would minimize the chance for cheating and build a lot more student choice into the system...