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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funding Increased, But Still Lower...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some Funding Restored to Teaching Hospitals | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...question is why, given the council's reasonably competent performance winning frozen yogurt in Annenberg and Fly-By lunches in Loker, do students still ignore...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: The Council Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...world. But again, on this campus a democratically elected assembly from the houses is not the best way of gauging and representing student opinion. Nearly any yahoo who wants a council seat can get one, and even if elections were to become competitive overnight, it would still be impractical to expect the council to genuinely reflect student opinion...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: The Council Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...future consultants among us know, we need to think outside the box. A better way to distill student opinion into a single assembly would be to give individual, College-recognized student groups a seat on the council. It would still be an imperfect way to garner student opinion, but almost certainly more accurate than the current council structure. There is no logical reason why council representation should be assigned geographically...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: The Council Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...They still teach kids about the birds and the bees. It's just that these birds wear chastity belts and the bees pretend they have no desire whatsoever to pollinate the local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Teaching Chastity 101 Really Work? | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

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