In recent years I have also revived the National Honors Society at our campus and created a culture of service that has spread our work from the streets of Boston to as far away as the Grand Canyon.

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Like many other colleges and universities, Cornell has been reshaping its campus environment to discourage the culture of drinking.

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In his speeches, Mr Mbeki condemns the collapse of the culture of learning: the teachers' unions that strike for implausible pay increases, the students at Venda University who burned down campus offices because the administration would not give them 30 cans of beer each for a party.

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