Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British students also consume more alcohol. The drinking age in England is only 18, so alcohol can play an official role in campus social life than in the United States, fellows say. "At Cambridge, students will get plastered every night. In America they go out and have ice cream. A lot of the student life there revolves around alcohol. Freshmen are legal, so we always have wine and sherry at formal dinners," Hurst says...
...social anthropology concentrator who put off fulfilling her science cores until senior year, I also had the misconception of science students being "intense" or "grindy." Soon after I began interviewing students and professors in these disciplines, however, my ideas about science students drastically changed. The students I spoke with had enormously varied interests and backgrounds; there was a football player from Hawaii, a female violinist from New Mexico, the captain of the Harvard men's sailing team, a Canadian woman active in nuclear war deterrence, a female ROTC member whose sister fights fires in Chicago, and a gregarious Black woman...
...students must be more aware of the problems facing students in the sciences. They are individuals with dreams and aspirations similar to our own. So the next time a fellow student tells you their concentration, show interest, whether they are in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics or sciences. Who knows, you may learn something from them--or even become friends with a "geek...
...media demanded that Sen. Paul Simon explain how his fanciful public works-balanced budget plan would work. In the same vein, the media should grill Jackson on how he would finance his ambitious spending proposals, which include hugh increases in everything from education to social security to farm subsidies...
Jackson courageously has advocated increasing the tax rate for corporation and for the wealthiest Americans, has suggested withholding social security and Medicare benefits from the wealthy and has called for substantial and potentially destabilizing cuts in a host of weapons systems. But many economists, even Democratic economists, believe that this revenue will not be enough to pay for his domestic programs...