Word: customs
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Council officials announced that special elections to fill vacant seats on the Undergraduate Council will be held by paper balloting due to computer problems. The council's custom voting program, "uc-vote," has had problems since the general elections in September...
Speaking of cattle, it's pre-frosh season. Fold out those futons and bone up on the history of the Science Center; they're back. Judging by the anal-retentiveness of this year's potential admits (e.g. one high schooly Thayer guest allegedly broke out the custom-made business cards as an icebreaker), the class of '03 will likely cause a mad rush for ArtCarved's "Epic" line...
...Speaking of cattle, it's pre-frosh season. Fold out those futons and bone up on the history of the Science Center; they're back. Judging by the anal-retentiveness of this year's potential admits (e.g. one high schooly Thayer guest allegedly broke out the custom-made business cards as an icebreaker), the class of `03 will likely cause a mad rush for ArtCarved's "Epic" line...
...That doesn't sound very imposing," explains Halpert, "but it takes the strength of two to move it, an action we perform as seldom as possible." Though only two inches thick, the book's binding drips with metal ornamentation and decorative gilt. Houghton's two copies lie comfortably in custom-made cloth cases, so comfortably, in fact, that librarians hate to disturb them...
Florida grade-schoolers aren't the only ones sweating new standardized tests these days. With President Clinton's proposal for national reading and math tests shelved by Congress, states are rushing to roll out comprehensive tests of their own. In the past two years, some 20 states have unveiled custom-made exams intended to hold students (and their schools) to higher educational standards. What's more, unlike the old-style multiple-choice exams, in which lucky guesses often padded scores, tests in more and more states now include subjective "performance questions" that ask students to craft essays and show their...