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...author is a genial man named Richard J. Light, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education. He is a cheerleader masquerading as a statistician, and the tone of his book began to convince me that maybe all was not lost. I could still Make the Most of something. But of what? And what does that even mean? According to Light it’s somewhere between getting your money’s worth out of the academic experience and being personally happy. In his surveys he asks people to rate both academic and personal...
...thought it was a very positive note, and a positive tone for the discussion, to assume that both faculty and students had it in their best interests to teach the best possible courses and to take the best possible courses,” Todd said after the meeting...
...Kanji, echoing the general tone of the question and answer period, expressed disappointment at what he perceived as Dershowitz’s insensitivity. He called Dershowitz’s language regarding the Palestinians “condescending” and “negative...
...worse habit than just about any other campus epidemic I can think of right now. Much worse than using “and by X you mean Y” jokes on a regular basis. Possibly more damaging than having a “novelty” ring tone (Justin Timberlake songs don’t count) which goes off in the middle of lecture, and then answering it. Much more heinous than deliberately avoiding the well-meaning pamphleteers outside the Science Center by taking the long route round to the side entrance. It is a crime worse than...
...Just like other corporations in this country, they’ve hired little Nazis to harass our workers and intimidate them,” Chiles said, setting the tone for the rest of the protest. “We won’t put up with these agents of President Summers. We will not be intimidated by any little Nazis...