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Universities have always been America's approximate monasteries, embracing codes of behavior too stringent for the outside world. Deans aim to enforce a set of rules that will guide young people from the safety of their family to the freedom of the rest of their life. Some students arrive barely knowing how to drink and sleep, much less drink and sleep together; they have little sense of what is appropriate and what is expected of them. So with a pitcher of beer in one hand and a dorm key in the other, society's children set out to discover...
...requirements stringent enough to match the admittedly strenuous job of writing a thesis must involve courses other than the normal midterm-paper-final departmental courses. What would those courses be? More seminars? More tutorials? More undergraduates in graduate-level courses? These plans do little to ease the teaching crunch faced by departments, which the staff hopes to alleviate...
According to Green, members of the Faculty's Committee on Research Policy said Harvard's new rules will likely be slightly more stringent than those at most research universities...
...picnics and beach parties. Says Dr. Abraham Bergman of the University of Washington, who has studied the psychological toll on youngsters of benign heart murmurs and sickle-cell trait: "Children pay a price for being labeled." There is concern too that overzealous parents will put their offspring on overly stringent diets that can deprive them of essential calories and nutrients and stunt their growth...
...problem yet. While earlier studies using data taken through 1986 had put the loss during the previous decade at about 2%, the new report says the number for the 1980s was closer to 5%. EPA chief William Reilly called the results "disturbing" and vowed to push for more stringent international controls on chlorofluorocarbons, the man-made chemicals thought to be largely responsible for triggering the problem. Most developed countries have agreed to ban the substances by the year 2000, but even that may not be soon enough, said Reilly...