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...various practice and season regulations (JV teams are not allowed to practice outside of their playing season), the NCAA forces all incoming athletes to go through a process known as “the Clearinghouse,” which involves paying to send in high school transcripts and standardized test scores. And despite all of the hoops that JV teams must jump through per NCAA regulations, they still face trouble finding competition. Gaber notes that even though her team “had to keep up regular practices,” they only had three games in their fall season...
...Premiere,” a production of “Blasted” is running until April 12 at the Loeb Drama Center. Directed by Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 and produced by David P. Thoreson ’08, the production could be considered a test of endurance with a running time of just over two hours and no intermission. But the intense and grotesque nature of the script makes it easy to remain engaged even as the play exceeds a comfortable duration. The play opens in a hotel room, as Ian (Nick...
...Hillary Clinton, by contrast, never insisted on any such promise from her political guru, Mark Penn. Indeed, the potential for conflict only increased when - as Clinton was launching her Senate reelection campaign in 2005, in a test run for a potential presidential bid in 2008 - Penn was named worldwide CEO of Burson-Marsteller, one of the largest firms in the world of public relations, a field in which Washington advocacy has been playing a bigger and bigger role. Last year, Bloomberg News reported that Penn's private blog for his Burson-Marsteller colleagues included an entry titled: "Workin With Hillary...
...most important pieces, but it receives only one fifth of the visitors to the other museum,” Manoogian says. And even in the immediate future, the closure of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger may not be all bad: in addition to allowing patrons to see a test case of “how the collections look side-by-side” at the smaller Sackler, it may also allow for more undergraduates to develop an interest in the art. “It gives us a good opportunity to expand our group beyond the ‘nights...
...reassessment of ways that universities have traditionally predicted applicants’ future college performance. The studies, which were presented at the conference of the American Educational Research Association last week, recommend that universities seriously consider other measurements of predictive performance outside of grade point average and standardized test scores. For example, colleges could request that applicants complete a questionnaire presenting different scenarios that would reveal interpersonal skills and personal discipline, University of Minnesota professor Nathan R. Kuncel proposed in one of the studies. Regarding many colleges’ practice of using interviews, letters of recommendation, and application essays to judge...