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...cancel January’s faculty meeting, an apparent annual tradition that nevertheless set back progress in favor of extra long vacations for professors. Fortunately, at the February meeting, the Faculty managed to address several of these issues. At that meeting, the Faculty voted to require that all courses allow Q Guide evaluations—a valuable reform that will ensure that students have at least some information on the quality of the courses they are considering during shopping period. The Faculty also approved a new Ph.D Program in Visual and Environmental Studies, which will benefit not only the graduate...
...profit management, those professions don’t have as many resources to recruit students and to develop leadership skills,” Corbin said. “We were trying to create a position that will allow a graduating senior to further their knowledge, skills, and networking in order to elevate themselves to gain a top position or start their own non-profit...
...American citizens were brought together and assembled into 10 groups, each consisting of five or six people. Members of each group were asked to deliberate on three of the most controversial issues of the day: Should the United States sign an international treaty to combat global warming? Should states allow same-sex couples to enter into civil unions? Should employers engage in affirmative action...
...commonly used argument against compensated kidney donation is that people in poverty would be most likely to sell their organs. While perhaps true, this concern neglects the fact that we already allow people with low-incomes to make their own decisions regarding the sale of their sperm, eggs and blood. Both kidney and egg donation are invasive procedures that come with associated risks. The decision whether or not to sell an organ would also not be made in a vacuum and one would expect medical professionals to fully present the associated (albeit minor) risks of kidney donation before surgery...
...school, a fellowship, a job, or virtually any post-graduation endeavor. Choosing particular electives to avoid the risk of too many unnecessary Bs and Cs may not be idealistic, but it can hardly be criticized as unwise. The pass/fail grading option, however, could be better used as insurance to allow students to take appealing classes they would otherwise see as too much of an academic risk...