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...walked to Memorial Hall, where I was told I would find numerous prospective employers on parade. The place was abuzz with my classmates, who were busy trying to make good impressions on one dark-suited individual or another, getting names and telephone numbers, hoping to ease the transition from academia to employment. They were intent on sending the right message to their prospective employers...
...supply of lavish praise from celebrities met demand for the attention of one of academia's most famous personalities last night at the 85th birthday bash for Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...
...science was the only way to tackle the questions that kept popping into her head. After touring Europe and Africa (where she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro), Profet got a bachelor's degree in physics at Berkeley. She did not pursue a doctorate because the "regimented environment" of academia turned her off. "School isn't my kind of thing," she admits. Still, she took a job as a biology research associate at Berkeley, which gave her the time and freedom to follow wherever her restless mind...
Profet's many admirers in academia quickly lauded the new theory. "She has a brilliant hypothesis and substantial evidence. I'm curious to see if it holds up," says Dr. Randolph Nesse, a psychiatry professor at the University of Michigan. "It's the only serious contender for a plausible evolutionary explanation of menstruation," declares George Williams, an editor at the Quarterly Review of Biology, which is published by the University of Chicago Press. "It is extremely unlikely that her theory is seriously wrong. Her arguments are quite convincing...
...also criticized professors of academia in general for not fulfilling the need to speak on the issues. "We are expected to speak what we conceive as the truth," Fein said...