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...based on some of the inquiries from students, the concerns about eating disorders, and what we were doing to support those students in the dining hall,” Martin said. Executive director Ted A. Mayer said on the HUDS blog this week that the dining services needs to address “the challenge a quiet and surprisingly large contingent of our community faces with eating disorders.” “Those individuals can place an undue emphasis on calories and other literal food values, making their placement over every food item a real challenge...
...early ’90s, with Bowers v. Hardwick (the case which upheld the criminalization of sodomy) on the Supreme Court’s Docket, and the AIDS crisis exploding into the news, LGBT students were louder and more visible than ever. These students insisted that their professors address issues central to queer identity, demanding a class on sexual orientation and the law, and collaborating with other student groups to push for faculty diversity. Activism flared up more recently when the school decided to let military recruiters on campus rather than risk the University’s federal funding...
...transcends national borders. “The way he talks about [the future], it’s now,” Zagorsky said, speaking of Barroso’s optimistic depiction of our collaborative potential. But the speaker’s criticism of American policy, muted throughout the main address, sharpened as questions streamed in from the floor. When pressured to give the European Union’s stance on China’s human rights record, Barroso said, “It is not by force that we will make China a democracy.” Barroso also stressed...
...system in crisis, critics who bemoan the shortcomings of standardized testing simply cannot afford to ignore that such tests do provide benchmarks for basic proficiency, from which schools can evaluate their own performance. Merit pay systems may leave much to be desired, but they provide a notable avenue to address the failures of our current system, in which children who are several grade levels behind in basic math and reading skills are left to slip through the cracks. Other proposed remedies for the education crisis—from charter schools to private school vouchers—merely skirt the systemic...
...member of the undergraduate panel with Meacham and Quinn. “The panel was valuable,” Birdsall said. “It was enlightening to listen to the panelists share their spiritual backgrounds with each other.” During the key-note address, Quinn described her transition from feeling “contempt and disdain for any kind of religious person” to now no longer calling herself an atheist. “Religion touches everything in our lives. You can’t be a truly informed person unless you understand religion...