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Although it dropped the doubles point, the Crimson took this wake-up call to heart and came back in the singles matches with a vengeance...
...hope this editorial is a wake-up call for Knowles. It is not acceptable for a dean of the Faculty to be so hopelessly, and unapologetically, out of touch. In future searches for important administrative jobs, let this be the guiding principle: a search is only legitimate if students participate in all aspects, from the screening of applications to the interviewing of specific candidates. Perhaps without knowing it, Lewis himself recently made the argument for such a policy. "We have many bright and imaginative students here," he said, "and good ideas may come from any of them...
...This is good for a team like us," Meringoff said. "It's a nice wake-up call. There are teams ahead of us that we think we've better than, so that should motivate us in the spring...
...very disappointed in the team's performance," senior captain Peter Tang said. "Hopefully the results will serve as a wake-up call to the men's team...
...Budde, a retired University of Massachusetts professor of school administration who is credited with inventing the charter-school idea. "If you see kids leaving you and money leaving you and you're criticized about the job you're doing, you're going to respond," he says. "This is a wake-up call for the Establishment: the old organization doesn't fit the times. It's like the Berlin Wall -- it's got to come down. But it's going to take 10 or 20 years for something new to emerge...