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What is it that has the academics of Harvard Square passionately clutching paper cups morning, noon and night? A steaming container of coffee in hand has, for students and professors alike, replaced the tweed jacket as the fashion badge of academia. Gourmet coffee joints, once an innocous deviation from Harvard Square's more down-to-earth roasters, have become a neighborhood consuming blight, threatening to drive out all other forms of commerce. Worst of all, the trend in the Square is not even original: specialty coffee sales in the U.S. have ballooned from $1.5 billion anually in 1989 to over...
Rhett Jones, professor of history and Afro-American studies at Brown, said that because there are not that many professors of Afro-American studies in the pipeline of academia, all the universities end up shuffling the same top people around...
Although Ng has put her acting career on hold to pursue academia, she still converses regularly with her manager and agent, and has to be prepared to "fly out at a moment's notice." Ng said that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Asian actors to find jobs, especially since the movie industry is being inundated by Asian-motif films...
McArthur said his comments about the low compensation of Business School faculty members were meant to address the problem of reasonable compensation in academia as a whole. And he said the problem is not just monetary compensation, but the substantial investment of time necessary to pursue an academic career...
...while Halloweens come and go, the daily stress of life in academia inspires nightmares all year long. Every-one experiences anxiety dreams--not just students, but administrators and yes, professors...