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...questions weren’t specific to the junior class,” said one parent who declined to give her name because she was criticizing the event. “A lot of the initiatives like financial aid don’t really affect our children, so I would have liked to have heard more about how you get your junior now to maybe be focused on graduation.”Faust noted a few times during the session that many new programs would have little impact on the junior class, but she didn’t give...
...University was working to improve its engineering program—for many years an afterthought at Harvard—Faust said that a potential concentrator “would develop capacities both in engineering but will also understand a wider range of ways in which technology can affect society.” The announcement comes as the School’s founding dean, Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, prepares to step down after a decade of leading Harvard’s engineering programs. Venky said he was excited about the concentration in an interview yesterday, but cautioned...
...unanimous condemnation of the assassination. Socialist spokesperson Diego Lopez Garrido confirmed that Sunday's election would be held as planned, assuring the press that "no matter how hard ETA tries," it will not impede "Spaniards' freedom of expression." Yet the question of whether - and how - the killing might affect the vote was on everyone's mind...
When asked whether the killing would affect the election, Arstegui was unequivocal: "Absolutely not." Juan Aviles, security expert at the Spain's National Distance University, agreed. "It's not going to influence the campaign. It's true that some could see it as evidence that Zapatero's strategy of negotiating with ETA was mistaken, but voters could also show solidarity with the [Socialist] victim...
...assassination may also affect voting in the Basque Country, where the Socialists and the Basque Nationalist Party are competing for congressional seats. Supporters of the outlawed Batasuna (widely considered the political wing of ETA) and Basque Nationalist Action (ANV), which the government recently banned for its connections to Batasuna, have called for Basques to abstain from voting in an election they see as illegitimate. But according to Landaburu, the killing, if it was an attempt to enforce the boycott, might well backfire. "I wouldn't be surprised if people turn out en masse to vote not only in Spain...