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...which also manufactured aircraft engines - went into receivership in 1971, the auto and aerospace units became separate companies. After a variety of owners, BMW took over and now builds the cars at a plant in Sussex. A low-rise, energy-efficient facility, it currently operates one line and one shift that turn out four to five handbuilt cars a day. The 550 employees include craftsmen - skilled cabinet and saddle makers, for example. Most Rolls sold are bespoke; on average customers pay an extra $20,000 to have a car customized. The company is adding a second line next year...
...Surprisingly, the committee’s recommendations signaled a shift away from some of the more hard-line policies of the past, placing a greater emphasis on safety, student participation, and educational initiatives. Recommendations included redefining the disciplinary duties of proctors and tutors so that they better supported student safety, creating more non-alcoholic social options for students, and better publicizing the college’s “amnesty” policy...
...forces undergraduates who want to drink to attend off-campus events in unsafe environments with unfamiliar people outside of the safety and care provided by our Houses.” Taken together with new policies for student groups, Petersen also claims that “both shift the social life on campus into hands of the privileged...
...Travia, however, dissents. “Our numbers so far haven’t reflected that shift,” he argues. “I think one of the key examples of that was the success of last year’s Harvard–Yale game.” Fewer students were arrested or drank themselves into the emergency room than in recent history, but the student body as a whole seemed underwhelmed by the tailgate as a social event...
...senior group as a whole—it is their team. We just have the titles.”Having spent the majority of her rowing career on the Charles and participated in the Head of the Charles for five of the past six years, Laursen-Strecker recalls the shift from high school to collegiate crew, recognizing it as a contrast in terms of training and technical focus on the water. “In high school, [the Head of the Charles] was the culmination of all the training prior to the race,” Larsen-Strecker says...