Word: fielding
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However, a degree is the ultimate signal of academic legitimacy. By refusing to offer a degree in ethnic studies as an option to undergraduates, the College denies its validity as an academic field of study...
However, ethnic studies is a field deserving of study on its own terms, and students should not be forced to compromise their academic interests by concentrating in another field. The lack of a degree-granting ethnic studies program means that students interested in issues of race and ethnicity can only pick and choose from a limited selection of disconnected courses in various departments. The requirements of individual departments (especially tutorial requirements) are not designed to facilitate this type of general study, and those who do take this approach (concentrating in English, say, to focus on Asian-American literature...
...academic admissions decision is made by a committee of faculty in your field. There is no single admissions committee," said Russ E. Berg, GSAS's dean of financial...
...Jerry Coleman, an Irishman from County Cork and a bartender at The Field Bar in Central Square orders, "Whatever you do, don't underindulge, especially since this year you have the weekend to recover from your shenanigans...
...carousing and debauchery, though, try out the sampling of Irish bars and restaurants in Central Square. When you sidle up to the bar, take note of the bartender's accent. Nine times out of 10, the pub has at least one Irish immigrant behind the bar. Coleman from The Field Bar is but one of the legion of friendly Irish tap masters around town. "I work here several nights a week and think that it's a great job. There are hundreds of other Irish doing the same thing all around Boston too, I'm sure," Coleman says...