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...federal appeals court panel in Philadelphia ruled yesterday that the Pentagon cannot block funding to universities that restrict military recruiters’ access to students, delivering a major victory to gay rights activists who have sought to limit the armed services’ presence on campuses...
...Since they're incredibly bad at [p.r.] themselves, it makes sense to have foreigners do it for them." Director Daniel Gordon suggests that the project was authorized by Kim Jong Il himself. "Permission for something like this must have come from the very top," he says. Despite his unprecedented access, Gordon says that the government had "no editorial control or input," although when inside the country he and his film crew were accompanied everywhere by official "guides." The royal treatment can be attributed in part to Gordon's previous documentary, The Game of Their Lives. That film assembled the surviving...
Earlier this year, Azhar N. Richmond ’05 and I established the Harvard “Vote or Die Family,” which has three major goals: (1) to make the Undergraduate Council more representative of the student body as a whole, (2) to increase access to the council for all students to voice their concerns to the administration, and (3) to raise awareness of the power that the council has as a vehicle for real change here at Harvard. Of all of the tickets that have declared for council president-vice president this year, I believe...
...number of terrible ideas—like the move to a Yale housing system, where first-years are randomly assigned to Yard houses and funneled into predetermined upperclass houses—are also being considered by the administration. The council has the pre-existing relationships with administrators and the access to the review process to organize student opinion into real power that they can leverage on behalf of current and future students, and academia as a whole...
...same bruising experience and so don't push them as hard. Ferguson's research showed that black families often have fewer learning resources, such as books and computers, at home than do white families of similar incomes. Moreover, as relative newcomers to their communities, black families tend to lack access to the informal networks white parents use to trade intelligence about the best teachers, classes and strategies for guaranteeing success. As a remedy, he suggests having teachers establish a good rapport with students early on and create homework assignments that show how academic subjects connect to real life. Black parents...