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Discussions about a faculty retirement plan have been in the works for well over a decade, according to former University Provost Jerry R. Green. But the recent implementation of the package comes at an opportune moment for a University in the throes of financial distress...
Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison concedes that during the busiest months, some students must receive slightly less care to accommodate appointments for students with acute distress...
...distress that surrounds a crime committed by a supposedly innocent child can create pressure for an unusually harsh sentence. However, such emotion, triggered for example by video evidence of Venables sobbing inconsolably for hours on end, can also create sympathy for excessive lenience. Despite such strong and opposing beliefs founded upon Venables’s and Thompson’s young ages, the legal age for criminal responsibility in England is 10 years old, and psychiatrists ruled that both the children could distinguish between right and wrong. In spite of general cries for vengeance and dismay over the seemingly lenient...
...torrent is seemingly unstoppable, despite the girl’s frantic struggles, and as the mud continues pouring, the profusion of bizarre sounds increase in volume and fury. The successful unity of the visuals and sound trigger intense emotional responses, arousing feelings even of distress as the scene totally envelops the viewer. But when one is on the verge of becoming totally overwhelmed by the uncontrollable derangement, in floats the soft vocals of Panda Bear, lending reassurance and calm...
...princesses, similarly, are not the naïve damsels in distress familiar from Disney home movies. Cinderella, played by Samara R. Oster ’13, ultimately convinces the Baker to look beyond the woods and his insecurities, in a scene that speaks to her strength of character. And although this Cinderella can communicate with birds—and sings just as sweetly—her talent at one point draws a disbelieving quip from the precocious, ferocious, and hilarious Little Red Riding Hood (Maya S. Sugarman...