Word: basic
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Were old Eli truly worried about legitimate violations of basic standards of decency at its university, it would work to improve the quality of its students’ work, their lackluster social life, and of course the much-in-need-of-an-upgrade Yale football team...
...move was spearheaded by an Educational Policy Committee comprised of various deans, faculty from each of the basic science and clinical departments and one student representative from each year...
...also need to learn standard academic subjects in order to keep up with their native English speaking peers. Throwing them into math, science and social studies classes taught in English will hardly help the students learn English, and they will fall far behind in subjects where they lack the basic academic vocabulary...
...those for whom the endowment was entrusted: Harvard’s academic community. Most of all, it is time for students, faculty and others affected by the Corporation’s decisions to have a voice in determining who serves on the Corporation. If Harvard is to uphold basic standards of ethics, if it is to teach students to be watchful and engaged citizens who care about the wrongs committed in their name, if it is to be a legitimate and trustworthy guardian of our $17 billion endowment, it can do no less...
...than with terrorists--AIT's security measures long predate Sept. 11--but for all potential foes, he has applied the same discipline, tactics and training that he learned as a major in the 82nd Airborne Division. New hires have to go through two weeks of AIT's brand of basic training, and employees wear color-coded badges to denote their rank (black for corporate officers, red for managers, blue for technicians). In an era when security and accountability are foremost in the mind of corporate America, AIT takes both to a whole new level...