I can confirm that we have been in discussions with the university concerning our request for the restoration of the four-year rollever, or an extension of the contract so that Bob can retire as the head coach as the head coach of the University of Cincinnati.
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I'm staying out of it, ... I couldn't give a shit. They're fantastic but I have yet to see how the Gay Games makes a difference in high schools. I'm not calling the Federation of Gay Games negligent, they just are what they are. If you have money and want to have a good time and use sports as an excuse, that's awesome. They offer a safe venue for post-collegiate gay athletes. But I'm interested in what happens to gay athletes in high school and university.
There's an increasing interest and demand to be on the avenue. Once people see that other people are willing to invest large sums of money on University, they see it as a great investment.
It is likely that the biggest contributor is popular culture. A show like 'Project Runway' brands Parsons all the time, and that has had an impact on the number of people who want to become fashion designers. It's been largely good for the school.
I think we have to learn from it and break things down a little bit. We have to learn from our mistakes, learn what we did well and what we can do well in the playoffs.
When I go around and I talk to young black kids, I really stress education. We've got this thing going on in black culture, where if you do well in school, you're considered acting white. If you use proper English, you're considered acting white. I say, 'We've got to get more kids acting white, then.' We want kids to speak proper English. We want them to get their education.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
We all became better tennis players today. It's quite an opportunity to play against a schools of this size and know that we can compete.
We believe passionately that such universal access to the world's printed treasures is mission-critical for today's great public university.
I want a staff that could relate to young people, understand our values that our program will have and that will not only serve as a source of motivation but also guide young men to become better players, better students and better people. These two guys will be tremendous representatives of our program and our university.
Because he did the high school, he has a really good idea of what we can do and not do.
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out of the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who cometh sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
I note that a group of students at the University of California in Berkeley want to visit China and North Vietnam. This is not at all easy.
It's been trending that way the last few years. The business of college basketball dictates that you can't wait until the spring to get recruits. If you wait until spring, you're dead in the water.
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
It's frustrating to see a player as talented as Andy get overlooked by these schools. What really confuses me is when they ask my opinion and I tell them about his ability, they appear not to comprehend a word I'm saying.
What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.
I have no problem if he chooses to leave and pursue other opportunities, that's his choice. If our athletic department or myself choose not to release him to a particular school it means we are not comfortable with possible direct or indirect contact that has been made, and I'm not going to comment on any particular school.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
There have been continuing, almost daily, allegations leveled against the university with regard to our football program, ... These give us very grave concerns.
a tremendous opportunity for teachers to re-connect with what made them become history teachers.
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Across the country it's recognized that the ninth grade is a key year for determining the ultimate success of a high school student will have while they are attending high school.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
A child's decision to join the military is very likely to land them on the field of battle in a fairly short time. It makes absolute sense that the schools have a legal and ethical obligation to ensure that parents and students can control the access that military recruiters have to children at least in their own homes.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
I had a few offers to play football. But it's a cost-benefit thing. It would take a lot of time to take that to the next level. I had a great time playing football in high school.
Every day I deal with the same 20 percent of students as assistant principal (along with assistant principal Kara Cotton) I deal with discipline. (But) I like to hear from the kids, about their life, education, passions, things they like, don't like. It's
They have assured me that our players were doing the right thing. There will be no sanctions from the university on them,
I think that tradition is what you miss, and the communities miss these schools, they really do.
She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.
Our interest is really in Third World development. I believe that it's essential to solving the problems of poverty, violence, and environment, to have better education.
Obviously, Pittsburgh is an elite team in college basketball and in our conference. In order to come into their building and beat them, you have to make a lot of things go your way.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
It takes 15 minutes to get a chest X-ray. That's just standard medical practice. They shouldn't have waited for four days. I don't understand why they let this guy in the study in the first place.
The biggest challenge is taking kids from all different types of schools and different types of offenses and defenses and having them play together. But it was neat to see the collection of talent on the floor here. Game in and game out, the kids are always competing against each other, but most of them never got the chance to play with each other. Those kinds of moments are neat for the kids.
Kaplan believes that no student should take the SAT without adequate preparation. Given the importance of the SAT in the college admissions process, we wanted to give every student the access to high-quality test prep resources, no matter what their financial circumstances.
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.
The good news is that we're getting closer. The bad news is we're not there yet. One of the good things is that we now have a late-game situation so we can do some teaching off of it.
We made a decision to go with the basics. Regardless of the level of football -- college, high school, the NFL -- blocking and tackling gets it done. We decided to focus on the basics and parlay that into everything else.
Living on campus is not just about a convenient commute to work. My residence at The George Washington University is about being available in the case of student or campus-wide emergencies.
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only 300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
We still have a long way to go, but we have the guys here now who see what the plan is, and they understand it, ... They realize that there's no cutting corners, that it's going to be a lot of hard work, learning to play as a team, doing things the right way ... Our guys are starting to get that and things are turning around.
I just watch guys. It's like, when the student is ready, the teacher will come. That's it.
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.