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...movies' financial success. No question that the names of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen and Jackie Chan helped 2008's Kung Fu Panda reach its $60.2 million opening weekend, or that Reese Witherspoon, Rogen, Paul Rudd, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Colbert lent heft to last spring's Monsters vs Aliens ($59.3 million). Dragon's lead, Jay Baruchel, isn't yet at that level of star wattage. Audiences had to be sold on the movie by its teen-trains-a-dragon premise and, even more, by the DreamWorks brand name; the studio's hope was that people would...
Andrew Berry, a life sciences concentration advisor and an OEB lecturer, said that until a few years ago, some biology theses were due after spring break. He added that the policy was changed because of Hoopes Prize nomination deadlines and because “students actually like to have a spring break...
Berry said that while students in the OEB department are motivated to finish their theses before spring break, the department is often lenient with offering extensions to overwhelmed students...
Professor Daniel G. Donoghue, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English department, said that having theses due before spring break is needed to give faculty ample time to grade theses and conduct oral exams before final grades are due. Four weeks is usually required for a comfortable grading schedule, he added...
Donoghue said that while setting thesis deadlines for after spring break would give students more time to complete their work, the new academic calendar implemented this year gave undergraduates more time in January to delve intensively into their topics...