Word: amendment
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...While previous violent incidents at Harvard have also spurred administrators to amend specific deficiencies in the University’s broad crises management plans and tactics, University officials admit that it is difficult to identify truly troubled students due to privacy considerations...
...give Romney an opportunity to take the national stage on a pair of social issues that matter a lot to conservatives: stem-cell research and gay marriage. When the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 18, 2003, that the state constitution mandates gay marriage, he undertook to amend the constitution to ban it. He also called for a federal constitutional amendment, getting to the right of McCain on the issue. And he went to war with the Democratic legislature over stem-cell research, though his position on that issue is not entirely consistent with that of pro-life groups. Romney...
Does history repeat itself? If you’re one of Harvard’s rabid calendar reform activists, the answer had better be a resounding no.The current push to amend the College’s schedule—aiming to start the fall term earlier and holding exams in December—is nothing new. “Calendar reform has been on the table at Harvard since the seventies,” said Undergraduate Council [UC] representative Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10. Every time the reform movement has achieved prominence, it has been met with...
...that if freshmen would ask me about academics, the trained answer was that I wasn’t ‘trained’ to answer that,” Riley says.But with additional training sessions and a monetary compensation, the developers of the Advising program hoped to amend this problem of authority, rendering its PAFs with something closer to a familial bond—a certain accountability that at the end of the day allows the advisees to be reassured that someone is assigned to look after them.“I think one of the real benefits...
...Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that same year. Asking the audience, “Are you going to take this from a Yalie?” Kim urged Harvard students to join the effort in pushing universities to amend licensing policies for new drugs so that the poor are ensured access to the fruits of academic research. For Harvard students en route to a multitude of careers, Kim said that “having the experience right now of getting involved and watching the change happen is really something...