Word: selecter
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Hernandez-Gravelle said that her office will select student representatives to work with the designated race relations tutors in each of the houses. She said that the students will help formulate programs tailored specifically to the needs of each house. The program has been given a preliminary trialin North House, said Hernandez-Gravelle.Activities there have included race relationstables, study breaks and an anonymous responseboard for people to express their views on issuesof race...
PROPONENTS of diversity will challenge the principles behind my proposals. Rather than merely promote bodybuilding excellence among a select elite, they would argue, the MAC should strive to include students of all skill levels and backgrounds. To do otherwise would smack a Buchanan-like nativism, even fascism...
...when the French select Mickey Rourke as a patron saint and Mickey Mouse as the antichrist, they are simply proving their obsession with things American. U.S. pop is their guilty pleasure. The French love American culture even as they love to hate it. Four of their five top-grossing films are from Hollywood, tepid versions of U.S. game shows blanket French TV, and it isn't just American tourists who patronize the Burger King restaurants on the Champs Elysees...
While Americans take such flexibility for granted, foreigners do not. To French students, who are commonly expected at age 16 to select both a university and a specific course of study, the American practice of jumping not only from department to department but also from school to school seems a luxury. Japanese students find it all but impossible to transfer credits from one school to another. Thus students who initially enter a junior college and subsequently decide to earn a bachelor's degree must head overseas...
...revised curriculum will concentrate on revamping the school's degree requirements. Students currently required to take course from three general areas-- humanities, social sciences and natural sciences--will have soon have to select courses from eight intellectual fields...