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...this activity is in preparation for World Cup USA94, which begins in Chicago on Friday. Forget the Super Bowl, World Series and Olympic Games. The World Cup is the most eagerly anticipated event on the sporting calendar for most people on earth. Held every four years, the tournament decides the world championship of football -- the kind of football actually played with the feet. Like America's Dream Team in Olympic basketball, the teams are made up of a country's best players. Some may play professionally in a league on a foreign continent, but they play for their national teams...
...proposed calendar "seemed uncomfortable for professors," said Assistant Professor of the Classic Cynthia Damon. After all, as Skocpol noted, "We all have quality of life issues to think about...
...Calendar reform is the most recent, but by no means the only issue on which students have expressed concerns that were either brushed aside or utterly ignored by professors and administrators. On other matters of consequence either to the University as a whole, or merely to individual constituencies, the new administration has refused to change long-held policies...
...nation's preeminent institution of higher learning, this is no way to proceed. If the University is to advance, it must be willing to experiment--it must stay in touch with the students who are is lifeblood. Simply standing by the status quo--whether it be on issues of calendar reform, faculty appointments, ROTC or anything else--will not work...
...fear the calendar torture persists largely because administrators are able to withstand complaints long enough for each crop of students to graduate... February...