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...While Rosenthal stressed that the sharp increase might indicate a greater willingness on the part of students to seek professional treatment for alcohol-related concerns, they nonetheless prompted then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to form the student-faculty Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard. Chaired by Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Badaracco, the former master of Currier House, the committee delivered its recommendations to Gross and Provost Steven E. Hyman the following fall...
...enrollment by 2015 to plug the gap and 77 percent of medical schools have increased their class size in the past five years. But medical schools at Harvard and other Ivy League universities are keeping their class sizes steady, saying that any changes they make would be insufficient in addressing the problem. Harvard’s class size has not grown for over 25 years, according to former Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dean Joseph B. Martin’s 2005 Commencement address. Jules L. Dienstag, the dean for medical education at HMS, said that the school will keep its class...
...increases their likelihood of dropping out, which in turn increases their chance of incarceration. Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Ogletree was effective in pointing out the “schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline.” Cohen also testified before the committee. To address these racial disparities, Ogletree suggested the creation of a system that earmarks schools which suspend black students at a disproportionate rate. Ogletree testified alongside Cohen, Rev. Al Sharpton, local U.S. District Attorney Donald W. Washington, and others. Ogletree, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, said in an interview...
...Wilton, former president of the South Carolina Southern Baptist Convention, Mitt Romney technically won the straw poll with 1,585 of the total 5,576 votes cast. But it was former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who lit up the crowd with a fiery sermon as the last candidate to address the gathering. He took second place, just 30 votes behind Romney. When organizers broke the votes down into those cast online and those of summit attendees, the results revealed a true thrashing. In the tally of those present at the summit, Huckabee swamped his opponents, capturing 50% of the vote...
...speaks highly of both Thompson and Romney, and the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, who recently dismissed Huckabee's chances and criticized him for being too soft on foreign policy and immigration. But the summit attendees who leaped to their feet at the close of Huckabee's address streamed past the heavyweights to cast their votes. If religious voters heed Mike Huckabee's call again once the real voting begins, the battle between the purists and pragmatists in the Christian Right may well be settled in Iowa...