Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fathom the willpower it takes to make it through each day: to get out of bed, to eat or to talk. They have gone on to pick out classes, buy books at the Coop and turn in problem sets. I wonder if I could do the same job maintaining a focus on academics and other seemingly peripheral activities. They not only survived being assaulted, they have overcome it and have not allowed it to rule their lives...
...fathom the willpower it takes to make it through each day: to get out of bed, to eat or to talk. They have gone on to pick out classes, buy books at the Coop and turn in problem sets. I wonder if I could do the same job maintaining a focus on academics and other seemingly peripheral activities. They not only survived being assaulted, they have overcome it and have not allowed it to rule their lives...
...What's the solution? Don't cut the program--turn it into a more substantive affair. There needs to be some sort of educational component to the show. Prepare the host to read the names of the groups appropriately (Halle Berry and Will Smith both butchered their pronunciation), and give the student performers a minute to describe the significance of their performance. Provide additional context about the performances in the brochure, and hand out information about each individual ethnic student organization at the food fair. At least that way we're making an effort to extend the discourse on difference...
...think the fact that there are so few courses and such an enormous interest in them imposes a sort of mental anguish on the creative writing Faculty because we have to turn away dozens of really exciting applicants," Kusz says...
Students who write will better understand what they read, and students who read will, in turn, write better. Especially in college, where students are supposed to be able to spend their time investigating new or special interests, limits on creative departments can be a serious barrier to education. The College already has one thriving creative concentration--Visual and Environmental Studies--that has proved to be both popular and successful...