For example, a student proposed an iron guard surrounding the coast of the United States; another student proposed to raise the cities that are most vulnerable to flooding.
At a recent conference on communism at Birkbeck College, one Soas student proposed the abolition of Christmas.
Hearing this at one of Steffensen's lectures, Nielsen, a young biology student, proposed a solution.
At one of my recent Harvard seminars, a graduate student proposed a clever scheme to do exactly that.
In her class Topics in Collaborative Robotics, one student proposed to teach a robot to make a salad.
"What about if the question goes, 'List three objects, places, people, books, or ideas that have influenced who you are'?" Anna Stonehocker, another Sciences Po student, proposed.
Jamilka and a fellow student proposed creating a CD that would be "kind of like what Al Gore did" to explain global warming to the unaware.
One student proposed a tiny trackball, like the ones on some BlackBerry phones ("except it doesn't stop working when it gets dirty," he noted slyly).
One student suggested the school host a dance and charge $10 instead of $5. Another student proposed that the school charge the students $3 a week to have dress-down Fridays.
City officials have countered that any student proposed to be held back would receive an extensive review and that teachers could still promote a child based on class work and other factors.
In response, a student proposes an associated lexical item moving.
