Word: standardism
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...haven't seen before, you come to know it as you would a new acquaintance. It moves along, taking you into its confidence by following certain well-worn paths - it's a buddy comedy or a domestic drama or a space epic. These paths create expectations, which the standard Hollywood picture is bound to satisfy. Familiarity breeds complicity. But there are some movies that, in the middle of the story or later, take turns, make strange twists, as if to say, like that new acquaintance, Don't presume you know me. I am not what you think...
Harvard Team Captains support their athletes through positive and healthy mentoring. As captains we strive to set a standard that our teammates can look up to. We work to promote improvement in character, academics, and athletics. Hazing undermines these goals...
...expectations surrounding racism should be no different for any person—college-educated or high school dropout, rich or poor, Quad or river—than they are for anyone else. For news outlets, either explicitly or implicitly, to hold a certain sect of people to a higher standard than another gives some people more license than others to act unjustly...
...league then sets three main controls: first, it establishes a universal floor, below which any candidate must also possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard deviation of the mean AI of the student body; and, third, it places restrictions on the biggest sport, football, wherein AI ranges for each individual school are divided into four “bands” that cap the number of allowable players at each numerical level, ascending in size from bottom...
...serious consequences and complications of reforming the grading system, the Faculty has more pressing concerns on which to focus its energy.Any means of reducing grades would unnecessarily add tension to Harvard’s already hyper-competitive environment. Many classes foster a culture of antagonism by basing the standard of grading on the collective student average; the key to great grades in such classes is not working hard, but working harder than one’s classmates. This discourages cooperation. When students are measured against an absolute standard, which is often set very high, they are encouraged to work collaboratively...