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With some protestors all but burning University President Lawrence H. Summers in effigy over his comments about the sexes’ innate abilities, one voice that remains patently absent from the debate is Summers’ mom, Anita A. Summers...
...retail store, she's told her hours could be anywhere "from nought to 38 a week" - and she might only find out at the start of the week. A three-hour shift might be 10 days away - even if rent day isn't. In this world, unions seem largely absent or ineffectual: when Wynhausen and her co-workers are paid the wrong rates, or expected to work overtime without pay, there's no white knight to help them. Her new work life, she says, calls to mind Australian wharves in the 19th century, when desperate workers used to gather each...
...tension and anger that pervaded last week’s meeting was largely absent from yesterday’s continuation of last Tuesday’s session...
...this hurts undergrads because it limits the advice they can receive. And, non-resident tutors or concentration department advisors cannot serve as replacements. Many non-resident tutors are conspicuously absent from their assigned Houses, and department advising is a much more formal process than the suggestions that House tutors are supposed to dispense. House tutors are intended to give advice in a much more casual way. They are supposed to be the ones who can tell you which professors to avoid and how to balance your schedule. They are also the people whom students can chat with about possible career...
...When people have diverse opinions, it’s mutual respect and civility that makes the whole thing work,” said one senior faculty member who attended Tuesday’s meeting. “When it’s absent, people feel alienated, isolated, and they lose their joy in their work...