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...talk on these topics is not enough evidence of students’ ambitions, then they are better illustrated by the number of new student organizations and publications registered each year, not to mention the popularity of founding internet start-ups–a trend that has swept across campus in the last few years more quickly than word spread in October 2007 of the sham scabies scare in Pennypacker...
...Amaker said after the weekend sweep. “[We] needed wins, home wins, a good weekend for a lot of other reasons, and a positive feeling about our kids as we try to finish out this stretch of the season.” In what became a familiar trend, the Crimson erased much of the momentum from the wins over the “Killer P’s” by ending the season on a four-game skid against Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and Yale. The final loss against Yale closed out an 8-22 overall...
...second team All-Ivy honors as well as a spot on the All-Regional team for her top-25 finish. Classmate Jamie Olson led the Crimson runners at Heps with her 18:03.40 finish, placing 13th overall.In the indoor and outdoor track seasons, the men and women continued the trend set in the fall, offering consistency from the upperclassmen and breakout performances from the first-timers.Junior Becky Christensen continued to dominate the high jump, winning both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonals by clearing 1.79 meters in each meet. Perhaps more impressive was Christensen’s outright win of the Penn...
Clothing chaos has led many employers to simply give up. The number of companies allowing workers to dress casually every day dropped from 48% in 2004 to 37% in 2007, according to human resources trade group SHRM. And the trend has left corporate America a sartorial mishmash. At opposite ends of the spectrum are Lehman Bros., which has reinstated its daily-suit mandate, and IBM, which has tossed its famously conservative dress code altogether. Last summer the U.S. Commerce Department banned employee flip-flops. This summer Texas A&M University is urging its staff to dress "comfortably" so the school...
Joining a trend among smaller colleges, Wake Forest became one of the first major national universities to stop requiring standardized test scores...