Word: students
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Gonsalves and Trembaly had met during the summer of 1986 when Gonsalves, a college student, was dating one of Trembaly's female roommates...
...seem so odd that the College administrators have employed a closed-door process for choosing the undergraduate representatives to a new committee which will oversee the Trust. The Trust, a powerful group created in the wake of the merger, will dole out nearly $20,000 in annual funding to student groups interested in women's and gender issues...
...those who are familiar with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the body formerly responsible for making such funding decisions, the news is disturbing. RUS was known for its warm, inclusive spirit and for encouraging a maximum of student input. Its members were elected yearly from the female undergraduate population, and topics discussed at weekly meetings were openly publicized...
...contrast, the students on the committee for the Ann Radcliffe Trust are being chosen in a manner which seems capricious at best and, at worst, a dangerous threat to the future of true undergraduate participation and interest in women's issues on campus. A single administrator, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87, has quietly been contacting specific members of the student body with an invitation to sit on the committee. Some of these individuals are directly linked to women's groups, while others have been chosen seemingly at random...
...just handing out Ritalin or Adderol," says TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "The medication needs to be monitored, and other studies show that medications are effective only when combined with some form of psychotherapy." So a pill alone still won't make your kid into a straight-A student - but it can help...