Word: homework
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...Some students blame not only inadequate counseling but also unsupportive campus environments for undergraduate mental-health problems. At Columbia, students complain about days-long waits for counseling appointments. One sophomore, who saw a fellow student, Andrea Melendez, fall eight stories to her death last month, was unable to do homework afterward. Yet he was denied an extension for a major paper due the next day. "I was told I'd had two weeks to work on it," he told Time. In a recent editorial, the Columbia Daily Spectator demanded greater sensitivity for students' needs. "Students receive psychological support from...
...never occurred to me. That job was too hard to me. I was looking at pictures of these gorgeous naked ladies all day long, and I was supposed to come up with fantasies about them. It took activity I enjoyed and turned it into homework...
...broadcast can benefit all students by providing a reference for homework and exams. Students who generally do not attend class--because they are too tired or hung over--may be enticed to watch the broadcast lectures at their convenience as opposed to not at all. Students who would have gone to the lecture but were prevented from doing so by extenuating circumstances--sickness, accidental oversleep or off-campus activities--benefit from the broadcast of lectures on the web. This option provides these students with the opportunity to recapture the material they missed. For these students most of all, taping...
...enough. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling vacating the Florida Supreme Court's first decision, it directed the Florida justices to provide a clearer explanation for their reasoning. At the time it issued its ruling ordering the recounts, the Florida court still had not attended to that homework assignment from on high. It can be argued that the court addressed it implicitly in its new decision, which avoided making the same mistake, or that the first ruling has been overtaken by events. Still, the U.S. Supreme Court is not used to being ignored...
...conservative education analyst, writes in her recent book, The War Against Boys, that schoolboys are "routinely regarded as protosexists, potential harassers and perpetuators of gender inequity" who "live under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with no college, "there...