Administrators have to be able to stand up to students' unreasonable or silly demands, just as we would like to see them stand up to mindless student-bashing.
The "mindless rituals" of the Afrikaner students will be forbidden: the hazing and the enforced deference, with younger housemates made to refer to older ones as "uncle".
The same gaokao that puts heavy stress on students also makes them willing to do homework over the summer and the emphasis on mindless rote memorization is precisely why students score highly.
Last week, Xinhua bemoaned the mindless consumption of Apple products by Wuhan students in "Apple pursuit lures 20,000 students into high-interest loans".
I hated the sense that graduate students were treated like mindless technicians.
Some of the confrontations with the various criminals involve desperate, life-threatening situations including a bus rigged to explode, oxygen being cut off at a large party, the entire city's clean water freezing, and school students being re-educated as mindless slaves.
PAGE A18 COLLEGE ELECTIVE Some college students while away free hours in mindless pursuits.
The paintings in the exhibition feature the marks and etchings from the chalkboards of the collaborative bustling space, the students' and collective's "performed thinking and mindless scrawling".
One evening, as he sat with a Navy veteran, a student came up to Powell, called him a "mindless military robot" and began to ridicule his uniform.
He goes on to say, "the stress destroys most kids' dreams," and many students "lose their sense of freedom, they become these mindless robots".
On the other hand, some students consider pressure to act on mutations: "Selective pressures are mindless agents of natural selection that operate on mutations that occur by random chance".
