Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...A.C.M. recruiters set up individual booths to woo prospects. For five hours each afternoon, students and parents went from table to table. The recruiters even managed to turn the Midwest winter into a plus with slides that featured students ice skating and building snow sculptures on picturesque campuses. At Carleton College's display in Albuquerque, one girl stared with delight at a photo of the campus. "It's not like New Mexico at all," she said. "It's lovely." Added her mother: "Oh, go there, dear. I'll go too." In Denver, Lawrence's admissions...
...Abrahamson, ordered a panel headed by NASA Engineer Richard Colonna to examine the suits, literally stitch by stitch. Its provisional finding: "Egregious oversights"-to use the words of one of the investigators-by the prime contractor, the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp., and by a key subcontractor, Carleton Controls Corp., a subsidiary of Moog Inc. By implication, the report also faulted the space agency...
...pressure problem turned out to be, in one official's words, "horrifyingly simple." Two plastic pins, about as large as two matchsticks and not much more expensive, were missing from the pressure regulator. These allowed a locking ring to open, thereby creating a leak. Incredibly, a Carleton employee, who has since been barred from further NASA work, as well as his supervisor, signed an inspection sheet affirming the pins were in place...
Remodeling a curriculum also means retraining a faculty. Carleton College in Minnesota will hold a series of seminars to expose faculty members to new uses of computers for tasks that could include choreographing dance or analyzing historical evidence. Davidson College in North Carolina will organize two summer institutes for liberal arts faculty members. They will be taught by scientifically oriented professors, among them a mathematician who uses his techniques to consider social values, such as conservation, as well as costs in solving problems...
...freshmen and sophomores meet each other in a traditional series of games and rope pulls known as Cane Spree, which custom decrees that the freshmen lose. At Gettysburg College, the rituals of getting acquainted are even more folksy: a "shoe scramble" determines who will dance with whom. At Carleton, there is a fried-chicken picnic and square dancing on the grassy area known as the Bald Spot...