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...DeGreeff ’89 has been a proctor for nine years—first in Grays Hall and now in Greenough—and currently serves as a senior proctor. On the first Sunday night meeting with his students during his first year proctoring, DeGreeff delivered his spiel on dangerous religious groups and was surprised to discover that one of his students had already joined the BCC after being on campus for only one day. The church had even seen to it to warn her that her proctor would speak out against the church but to disregard his admonitions...
...book’s conclusion breaks into an all-too-familiar spiel about the uncertainty of the future of news. The reader is left with nothing more than the repetitive claim that good journalism is crucial to a well-functioning democracy. In shirking blame, the book assigns responsibility to the public: “As long as they [the readers and viewers] create a market for good journalism, there will be good journalism.” Certainly, The News About the News raises important issues about the state of public media in our country, but it fails to resolve them...
...lessons are more complex than Griffin lets on. “He has this ritual,” Clancy explains. “First he gives you this spiel. Whenever you get attacked, like if someone is approaching the van, the first priority is to throw the keys in the bushes and run. Protect the van.” According to the Hartford insurance company, which oversees the van training, Griffin should take his charges on a six-hour spin in Cambridge. But Griffin mixes it up with other routes. “The [Harvard] insurance office wants...
...event hosted by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Asked the inevitable question about the growing backlash against high-stakes state exams, Paige paused for a moment and gave a curiously honest answer: "We know there are some bad tests out there." Then he launched into his spiel about the importance of assessments to ensure that no child is left behind...
...that she is a high school senior and part of a group that teaches elementary students about the dangers of smoking. Today is National Kick Butts Day. "Who's going to kick butts and not smoke?" Kara asks the children. All 32 hands shoot up. After her 10-minute spiel, she doles out lollipops and temporary tattoos to help them remember her visit. But it also helps that Kara casually encounters most of the younger kids every day in the hallways of their shared school building in tiny (pop. 535) Latimer, Iowa. "Our kids see the high schoolers as role...