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...addition, Faust touched upon the University’s year-old Common Space Initiative, which aims to increase the number of venues where both formal and informal gatherings can take place...
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...Facebook's admitted-student groups are yet another wild card in the college-admissions game, which is even trickier this year, given that the recession has school officials fretting over the number of students who will ultimately enroll. "I think it's safe to say that this is the most uncertain year in terms of predicting what students will do," says Christoph Guttentag, Duke University's dean of undergraduate admissions. "I honestly don't know how the economy is going to affect things." (See how one school uses financial aid to reel in students...
...turned down by Cornell, Brown, MIT and her first choice, the University of Chicago. Even some admitted-student groups are full of kids licking their wounds. Ted Williams was rejected from Yale but accepted at Wesleyan. When he joined the WesAdmits 2013 group, he found a number of other students in the same position. "There was a chain of posts from other people who'd also gotten rejected from Ivies," he says. "It was nice to have a little bit of commiseration...
...launched the same week a new federal cigarette-tax increase went into effect - a double whammy in the fight against smoking. The New York City Health Department has fielded five complaint calls since the ad launched on March 30, a figure Mandel-Ricci says is dwarfed by the number of calls to the city's quitting-smoking line in the same time period, "so it's worth...