Word: undergradate
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...Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, undergrad entrepreneurs have begun hawking a line of 100% cotton tees with the catchphrase "I know who made my t-shirt? Do you?" If you don't know, here's the answer: Workers seeking to improve their lives in sub-Saharan African countries like Lesotho, Uganda and Tanzania with few other opportunities for sustainable employment. These workers, according to the students, are getting fair wages and working in clean facilities, and no children are exploited in the process...
...minors. Indeed, in cases at Harvard there has been no indication undergraduates charged under the school-zone law intended to distribute the drugs to minors—and certainly not to the minors occupying the buildings whose vicinity suddenly renders drug offenders eligible for a much stiffer sentence. The undergrad with a dozen psychedelic mushrooms living high in Mather Tower, for instance, is not interested in padding his clientele with the young learners of Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary far below. In these instances, the judiciary’s function of meting out well-contemplated, proportional justice to offenders...
Having been on both sides of the podium—Harvard undergrad and TF—I would go one step farther than today’s editorial (“Will A Professor Please Stand Up?”). Both faculty and students should be accountable for their CUE evaluations. For evaluations to be meaningful, all students—not just those with the strongest positive and negative feelings—must complete them with the knowledge that their comments could appear in their instructor’s teaching portfolio to be read by hundreds of faculty search committee...
...well as many other mature-reader-oriented titles—to move back in with his parents and start from scratch. The goal: become a comic book artist in his own right. The path: quite dark and twisted indeed. Chiang was a trailblazer in his undergrad days as a joint concentrator in English and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Chiang entered college thinking that he would be an English concentrator, but wasn’t satisfied with what the department had to offer. At the same time, he started going with friends to local comic book stores like Million Year...
...It’s such a tradition in Harvard math culture,” says Raymond T. Pierrehumbert ’76, who took Math 55 as an undergrad and now teaches at the University of Chicago...