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Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report...
...question was,] 'Should we be setting this ad policy and put a moral spin on our revenue?'" says Julie L. Belcove '89, a former Crimson executive. "No one was defending Playboy. It was more a question of injecting our politics into our business practices...
...like the campus if we expectto cover it well," she says. "The Crimson is oneof the few things that ties the whole campustogether. If you believe in diversity, then ournewspaper needs to reflect that."SEBASTIAN CONLEYSETH LIVES DECISIONS: This 1995cartoon reflects on The Crimson's decision to runa Playboy ad seeking models for its Ivy Leagueissue. The Crimson had previously rejected similarPlayboy ads in the late...
Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools....Rudenstine should consider installing a tenure track. At the very least, he should abolish the ad hocs...
...question comes down to "This is a good story and it was legally obtained, but I might be ad boarded,' I'll run it," MacMillan says. "Anyone who becomes an executive knows that they may be called upon to do this...