Word: social
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Admissions officials said they did not know whether the dissident leader planned to apply for admission as a regular undergraduate. They said he plans to take courses in English, mathematics, Chinese and the social sciences...
...least a decade after 1997 there will probably be only seven candidates for each 10 faculty openings in the humanities and social sciences...
Hetty Liem, a full-time genetic engineer at Cambridge-based Genzyne, Inc., says she will be a "night person" around Dunster this semester. She says she will focus on house social activities rather than academic advising this year...
Students fought the change by claiming the right to choose, and won in the short term because masters themselves disagreed over how much social engineering was necessary to ensure "diversity," and because the masters' plan was to be unequally applied to all the houses. But when the dean of the College reversed the decision in March, he announced his resolve to forge a consensus on a better plan to enforce diversity this fall. As well he should. Not wanting to live together is not the answer to the problem of pluralism...
Students fought the change by claiming the right to choose, and won in the short term because masters themselves disagreed over how much social engineering was necessary to ensure "diversity," and because the masters' plan was to be unequally applied to all the houses. But when the dean of the College reversed the decision in March, he announced his resolve to forge a consensus on a better plan to enforce diversity this fall. As well he should. Not wanting to live together is not the answer to the problem of pluralism...