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Although these statistics might make even a Hoopes prize winner uneasy, just because a student isn’t performing up to par doesn’t mean that he or she is immediately getting kicked to the curb. Midway through the semester, instructors are asked to alert the Registrar’s Office of any difficulties that a student may be having. According to Freshman Dean Wendy Torrance, the “hope is that students will meet with course instructors, advisers, and with us, to discuss what may be contributing to their poor performance.” Similar...
Initially, I found it tempting to avoid this issue in my term as council president. Not only do I dislike proposing additional costs for students, but this is hardly a friend-winner or legacy-builder—especially when this council has delivered on party hours, keycard access, concerts, movie nights and other initiatives that ask very little of students. But in reality, I, and the vast majority of the council, publicly support this increase because we think it is wrong to pass the buck to future students when it is abundantly clear that we can no longer meet...
...triple jump, Laine nearly won the event, finishing in second with a jump of 15.11 meters. His effort fell .38 meters shy of winner Marc Kellman from George Mason, but blew away the next best attempt from an Ivy Leaguer at the meet by over half a meter...
...believe that there is something they can do in the coming season. It's when they can't visualize themselves running any more quickly that they give up. Radcliffe hasn't reached anywhere near that point yet. --BY SEBASTIAN COE, two-time 1,500-m Olympic gold-medal winner...
...more congenial place than it was in 1954. That may also be partly due to the very special energy that is Oprah Winfrey--a courageous, funny, compassionate, well-informed, dazzlingly curious person, as down-to-earth and loving as any human being I've ever known. --BY SIDNEY POITIER, winner of the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor in Lilies of the Field