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Though I continue to fall into this trap every year, I now know that my mid-December visions of a worry-free vacation and a productive, efficient reading period are a stretch at best and imaginary at worst. It's not the workload that really bothers me. It's not even the schedule itself that makes me rue this time of year, because in some ways our post-break exam system is a blessing: no other school I know of gives its students quite this much time to prepare for exams and catch up on reading that got skimmed, forgotten...
Williams said she looks forward to a lightened workload that will allow her to take classes on workplace injury and flexibility in accommodating disabled workers
...suggest that dining hall employees have to enforce a policy they don't support. Gong! The staff supported tightened restrictions because of the heavily increased workload, as well as the appallingly rude behavior of some of the interhouse violators...
However, states the article, in some schools abortion is taught only as an elective. At others, it is not even taught. Medical school students are often not required to learn how to do abortions, and must take on an additional workload if they want to learn. Your neighborhood practitioner, who should have a knowledge of most basic surgical procedures, could easily not know how to do an abortion...
...several security guards said they feel their place at the University shrinking. No guards have been hired since 1990, they said, but the workload has increased. And the University has out-sourced some of the guards' duties to outside security firms...