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...Hispanics and Native Americans receive a 20-point increase. A perspicacious essay, outstanding leadership skills or noteworthy personal achievement receives a relatively paltry 3 points, but a perfect GPA will earn one up to 80 points. In addition, whites and Asians of economic disadvantage receive 20 points, as do scholarship athletes. A Michigan resident garners 10 points, the child of an alumnus receives 4, and a perfect score on the SAT wins one 12 points...
...would have a greater opportunity to affect a process in which they currently have no voice. Junior faculty are too often judged exclusively on their published work; associate professors who are first and foremost excellent and accessible teachers are rarely granted tenure. While this fosters a large amount of scholarship, it hurts undergraduate education--the best researchers are not always the best teachers. Public standards of judging tenure candidates would enable public debate on what those standards should...
There will be also a journal placed in the Hillel lobby for people to share memories of Palmer-Sherman. A communal learning project in memory of Palmer-Sherman and a memorial scholarship in her name are also being planned...
...them, Jamal (good newcomer Brown), penetrates his lair on a dare, and a mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places...
...first stood out for his voice. As a boy, Thomas Penfield Jackson won a choir scholarship to St. Albans prep school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings...