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| | | (...) You're assuming that the entire reason for these tests is to get around these court decisions. What if there was a larger, more important reason -- like attempting to make testing the applicants more realistic and fair (see below)? It is a sad (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | Jeremy, (...) "With affirmative action programs under legal fire, colleges and universities are searching for minority admissions procedures that can withstand allegations of unfair preferences." I am not assuming anything, this is a quote from the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | Scott: (...) Boy oh boy, for the most part, you just hit the nail right on the head. Anyone asserting that college isn't a learning experience is using too narrow a definition. Almost invariably, one will learn about bureaucracy and incompetence, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | | | | Dave, (...) College is a learning experience, just for the most part, not a pleasant or an enlightening one. (...) Yes, to a point. Colleges are so bad in everything in terms of paperwork, etc. It gave me a bad taste for inefficient, non consumer (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | The snipper from heck strikes again... (...) You forgot advanced beer drinking, how to file previous year exams to make them easy to find, why eggs are legal only at breakfast time, why freshman lab students might want to jump their lab instructor, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | | (...) Good points! I was pressed for time with my last post, so I didn't have the chance to explore the subject further! 8^) Dave! (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hmm... I just went there for classes, not much else, especially those mentioned above. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) Well that explains a lot... no wonder you're not having as much fun in later life! Seriously, a lot of the stuff I mentioned happens at colleges where the majority of the students are not commutters... (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | | | (...) Did you tease mynah birds Larry? Where did the profit come in? (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) There was a bar,(1) we went to when we went on Copper Country cruises. Among the things they had in this bar were an amazing gun collection hanging in the rafters (something like over 1000 guns including some very rare machine guns and stuff), (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) So what about that part which says "minority admissions procedures that can withstand allegations of unfair preferences"? Sounds to me like they're vying for a more fair environment, not necessarily within the restrictions of affirmitave (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | Again, selectively snipping for the heck of it. (...) I agree with you, private colleges *should* be able to. But it's a forlorn hope. They provide public accomodations so they're stuck with the same loony regulations as everyone else. Even if they (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds" —Thomas Burger
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| | | | (...) Wow Lar your just lightin em up huh? LOL I can see Mindstorms maybe a excuse for college application.. Because thats some serious Lego shtuff (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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