Word: students
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After drinking with friends at a pub in Bradford - a West Yorkshire industrial town ten miles west of Leeds, where the Ripper had struck twice before - Sociology Student Barbara Leach, 20, went out for a stroll near the University of Bradford. After listening to the recording of the Ripper's threat, she had promised her worried parents that she would never go out alone at night. But this time, she took the chance. She never got home again. After she had been missing for 40 hours, her mutilated body, partly covered by an old piece of carpet, was found...
...time the average class completes its four-year tour in Cambridge, a quarter of the men and about a third of the women will have visited the MHS. ("Women," Walters explains, "are more sensitive to interpersonal issues and more willing to ask for help.") While a lot of students have the notion that most MHS patients are counselled on a semi permanent basis, Walters says the majority of the cases his office handles are short-term and 'crisis"-oriented. The average student, Walters notes, "may see us in his junior year for three or four visits and then again briefly...
...millionfaculty salaries $41 million student financial aid $33 million libraries, museums and laboratories $20 million Core Curriculum $20 million House renovations $20 million Faculty operations $16 million athletics, arts and Memorial Church $12 million Public Policy program $250 million Campaign goal
...open the tests to public scrutiny and to begin answering some of these questions is currently meeting stiff and unwarranted opposition. New York state this year enacted the nation's first "truth in testing" law requiring Education Testing Services (ETS) and other, smaller testing services to mail a student his corrected exam on request...
...officials so harried, and ETS critics so jubilant? Because, in the words of Steve Solomon, who drafted the bill for NYPIRG, "this bill could totally change the way tests are used." By forcing the test companies to release each corrected test to the student who took it, test opponents say the bill will expose the bases and inadequacies of the standardized exam. It applies to all mass tests except the specialized achievement and AP exams, and also forces ETS to release the results of all their studies on the accuracy of the tests...