Word: sectionalism
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...first week of December, I can’t bear it anymore. I sit in my room “doing work,” but in reality I am procrasturbating. “Oh, you who wastes time! You sit learning about everyone in your section via thefacebook.com and you organize the trash in your bedroom into neat piles. Tomorrow you will actually go to lecture for one of your Core classes. Have you lost all focus...
Last spring, serving on the Allston Committee together, Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and I were able to get a full section of the planning report devoted to a student center and a strong recommendation that under no circumstances should the campus be divided between the River, Allston and the Quad. This year, there will be many more specific recommendations and decisions coming from the seven curricular review committees and the Allston planning process. No other ticket can impact these processes to the extent that Matt and vice presidential candidate Clay T. Capp...
...initial draft of the ordinance included a section requiring directories to be submitted to the police department and the Inspectional Services Department, but this part was omitted after widespread controversy, Smith said. “I wouldn’t say the students are cheering us on…one of the responses from the student population was concern about their rights being trampled on,” Smith said. “The section was taken out, and now they’re comfortable with the ordinance...
...runningmates, who forged a friendship freshman year watching an episode of the “Simpsons” on Capp’s computer in a “totally disorganized” government section, present a united front to supporters as well as detractors...
...then there is the sex. A word before opening this greasy, sweaty, gyrating can of worms. Wolfe has a purpose here, which is set out even before the novel begins. In an untitled section before the novel’s Prologue we are told of Victor Ransome Starling, Charlotte’s Nobel Prizewinning professor. His famous experiment on cats demonstrated that control animals in the presence of those biologically induced to engage in rampant sex did so too simply because of environmental pressures to conform. “In that moment,” Wolfe writes...