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...confines of the law. Although copyright law leads to hundred-dollar course packs that are costly to universities and students, intellectual property law ensures the ongoing production of the journals and scholarly work that are necessary to our studies. Scholarly journals could not survive without these copyright costs, and academia would suffer a loss without the existence of these journals, which provide a source for current and relevant work. Georgia State University is certainly not the first school to digitize course packs at the expense of copyright, but regardless of how many schools are already doing this, these universities need...
...leadership. By the time we got into college, we had amassed enough experiences to fill several personal essays. But now, at the brink of full economic adulthood, we find ourselves in a bind. College is the last time we will have three months to ourselves, unless we go into academia. And accustomed to such concepts as “Spring Break” and “Summer Vacation,” we forget that, once we graduate, the seasons will be things we glimpse in passing through our neighbor’s cubicle window. Of course, when...
...among them, that he was “very Swedish.”Having left his homeland for a Harvard professorship in 1954, the New Testament scholar made his mark on the Harvard community and beyond with an understanding spirit that sought continuity in faith and integration in academia, said Divinity School professor Harvey Cox. “He was sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part of his personality,” Cox said. Stendahl passed away last week at the age of 86, after several years of declining health...
Soon it’s obvious this man is no ordinary professor, and that his story is no typical tale of ascent to the zenith of academia. He is a Harvard College Professor of Psychology. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Prize for Science. He is a high school drop out. He is Daniel Gilbert...
...Because he was a writer and not entirely closed in the field of academia before he was a scientist, I feel like he’s able to think about and see things in a way that people who all share the same background can’t,” says Killingsworth, the second-year graduate student...