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...plebes: newly-minted high school graduates going into their first-year as midshipmen in the Naval Academy brigade. While their high school classmates spend the summer tanning, they head off to Annapolis for Plebe Summer. “Start your days at dawn and end them long after sunset, wondering how you will make it through the next day,” advertises the USNA website. “Forget television, leisure time, or movies. You will have barely enough hours to in the day to finish your assigned plebe tasks.” Enticing...
Still, the question of affirmative action won’t be over this fall when Michigan debuts its new undergraduate admissions policy in line with Gratz. With an eye toward the future, O’Connor’s majority in Grutter articulated a tentative sunset clause for affirmative action...
Critics, while welcoming the time limit and its suggestion of a gradual phase-out of all affirmative action programs in admissions—not just those ruled out in Gratz—were similarly unsure about where the ruling and its sunset clause would lead...
However, almost all of that surplus was part of the merger payments guaranteed to Radcliffe from the University—start-up payments which are slated to sunset in 2012. After that, Radcliffe will be responsible for its own funding as one of the University’s 10 autonomous schools. But unlike the other schools, which gain revenue from tuition and have growing alumni bodies, Radcliffe’s alumnae base will only decrease over time—and the Institute must plan accordingly...
...school coaching job in Ohio in order to follow the final year of his son’s career. As that final season became the final month and the final month the final weekend, what the elder Merchant witnessed from the stands was no relaxed ride off into the sunset. Instead, as the season descended toward depths that made a mockery of one of the program’s most talented teams in a while, Dave Merchant’s son only burned and raved all the more...