Thanks to this halo effect, studies have shown, cute students are rated as smarter than uglier students, even when they have the same academic records, while attractive workers are far more likely than unattractive ones to be seen as good at their jobs.
After the ugly fight, students and alumni publicly and privately criticized the basketball program and questioned whether players received preferential treatment.
The selected materials or material combinations were ugly in students' thoughts.
Would the doing wrong and ugly help students to get rid of old, familiar routines in craft learning?
Part of that investigation involved administrators confronting Buchanan with any "ugly" things students had written about her in their end-of-semester course evaluations, many of which she characterizes as "silly".
As for the colleges themselves, from a purely aesthetic point of view, campus exteriors are sometimes beautiful, often plain, and occasionally so downright ugly that students use the term "warts" to describe building elements.
The Last Party also contains the fullest and best account I've read of the nature of Blair's fabled membership of the Ugly Rumours student band.
Lee, who acts in a crucial role, as one of the pledges, parses campus life in terms of political protest, family experience, exuberant pageantry, ugly prejudices (against students with darker skin and against gay students), and, of course, sex that ranges from the romantic to the horrific.
"There were people that were openly ugly to other students," said Tosha Covington, who graduated this spring.
