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...Taylor, a history teacher at Beverly Hills High School in California. "If you're not cheating, then you're not trying. A C means you're a loser." Every principal can tell a story about some ambitious student, Ivy bound, who cheats on an exam. Teacher flunks her. Parents protest: She made a mistake, and you're going to ruin her life. Teachers try to explain that good kids can make bad decisions; the challenge is to make sure the kids learn from them. "I think some parents confuse advocating on behalf of their student with defending everything that...
...political diatribes display. To the average film viewer, the piercing political tirades voiced by filmmakers often seemed unjustified. While the shortcomings inherent to amateur creations often undermined their credibility, Beibin is fully committed to the political causes of the work in the name of finding an outlet for genuine protest...
Harvard and Radcliffe’s dynamic responded to national events. First, the school shut down in reaction to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Then, in the spring of 1969, students took over University Hall in a labor protest. Final exams were cancelled. Classes stopped meeting. Studying became a struggle...
Koh’s move made Yale the second Ivy League law school—after Harvard—to restrict military recruitment in protest of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...Yale, gay rights advocates had been preparing to protest the military’s presence on campus last week, said Rebecca S. Tinio ’00, a second-year Yale law student and a board member of the Student/Faculty Alliance for Military Equality (SAME). But on Thursday, with the Pentagon conspicuously absent from the group of employers conducting interviews with students, the atmosphere on campus was “joyful,” Tinio said...