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Most troubling, freshmen outperformed seniors at a number of highly expensive schools, like Princeton and Yale. This is evidence for one of two equally alarming conclusions; either America’s most pretentious universities are making their students stupider, or else their students graduate less American than when they began...
...spring semester, undergraduates may know which Core courses will count toward the new general education requirements, which were approved last spring with the goal of emphasizing the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.Jay M. Harris, the chair of the committee, said that the group hopes to bring freshmen under the new requirements, but that requirements for sophomores are a “big question mark.” He said juniors and seniors “are just going to have to finish under what we hope is an open and expanded Core.” The College...
Change is working in its favor. Eight freshmen, including Ivy League Rookie of the Week Katherine Sheeleigh, as well as consistent forward Gina Wideroff who scored game-winners in two consecutive games, are proving themselves indispensable values to the team. Another newcomer to the program is Coach Ray Leone, who took over for last season’s coach, Erica Walsh, in February...
...tough. New schedules, new environments, and academic stresses off the field influence performance on it, especially in team sports where the adaptation of new members determines the prosperity of the group and influences individual contribution. But teammates are not concerned that the 2007-2008 season’s freshmen are not playing...
...freshmen are a fantastic asset to the team,” Mann said. “On and off the field, they are a great group of girls...