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...statistics from the 1997 and 1998 comprehensive senior surveys and a list of concentrations ranked according to satisfaction level from the 1998 survey. Women's studies, music and literature ranked in the top three for quality advising. English, applied mathematics and physical sciences were at the bottom of the pile. While the statistics in the report make for interesting, if depressing, reading (where does your department fall on the hit list?), it is really the suggestions of the committee which are most worth evaluating...
...PILE ON PAMELA...
...Around the middle of the meet, we started to pile up points in 35-pound weight and 3000, and that pretty much put the meet out of hand," Ciollo said. "We had it won before the relays...
...Jesse was a brawling-type, punch-and-kick kind of guy, and he had this big flying elbow drop," says wrestler Lawler, the man who nearly broke comedian Andy Kaufman's neck with a pile driver. Now that politics and pro wrestling have melded, Lawler is contemplating a run for mayor of Memphis, Tenn...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...