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...night stand. One piece of lore that now surrounds Datamatch is of a couple who met their first year through the service and who, now seniors, are still together. As this true tale implies, the ideal of the program is not to add another five names to your random hook-up list, but to find the person with whom you hope to be truly committed--in the end, a highly conservative mission...
Knowing when to say nothing is important," confides the female narrator of the nine short stories that make up Julie Hecht's Do the Windows Open? (Random House; 212 pages; $21). "And," she adds, "I haven't learned that...
Other students have planted messages of hope ("15 more months"), questions of identity ("Does anybody see me?"), self-affirmations ("I studied here 4/7/96") and random bits of aggression ("Fuck...
...even if mistakes were made, the magazine's figures are not mythical. Take a random sample of 15 undergraduates, and I submit to you that most will have taken a significant percentage of large classes. Few students would claim that multivariable calculus, basic writing and beginning language skills need to be taught by Ph.D.s. But they do expect to learn philosophy, history and literature in a setting where argument, debate and questions thrive--in small classes led by members of the faculty...
Rogaczewski attributed the inconsistency to random error, resulting from having only one person distribute and collect ballots while simultaneously answering questions during the voting...