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...ball rolling” in planning events with other religious groups.For Harvard Hillel vice-president of community relations Rebecca D. Gillette ’10, the Interfaith Council serves as a “united body to deal with joint programming and issues that affect many, if not all, of the different religious groups.”She added that she views the council’s role as addressing sweeping matters, while individual groups are typically responsible for initiating one-on-one contact.“The council is a great conduit for interfaith dialogue,” said...
...Olson and Lawrence A. Kutner say that this link may be more tenuous than previously thought. In 2004, Olson and Kutner began a $1.5 million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice to tease out the connection between the two variables. They found that video games do not affect all children equally and that the effect on behavior is not solely dependent on violence, gore, or sex. Olson said that gaming—including playing “M”-rated games—is such a widespread teenage phenomenon that it should not be considered abnormal...
...poverty initiative. If he would focus on fighting poverty worldwide and in America, he'd be good. They could be great. But I'm a little disturbed about the battle [Clinton and Obama] are having, I don't know how much it's really going to affect November. All the stuff she's coming up with and with the things that are coming out about Senator Obama - each one has shown that he has strong character. Not throwing his preacher under the bus and instead giving America insight to race in a way that they have not really...
...unfortunate trend in immigration procedures—namely, the increasing cost of entering the U.S. Rather than continue to raise the economic bar to foreigners wishing to enter the country, the federal government should seek to alleviate the costs for international students. Ever rising costs will inevitably affect the numbers of international students, especially in smaller and community colleges. While Harvard and many of its peer institutions are able to generously refund the SEVIS fee to applicants, increasing the student fees is a problem that contributes to the national malaise of immigration policy. As it is, international students are largely...
...issues that students have the most power to affect are the ones that are most often overlooked: college governance, undergraduate education, expansion into Allston, staff workers’ pay and treatment, etc. There seems to be an inverse relation between the closeness to which an issue hits students and their commitment to specific issues...