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Studying Telugu. Exploring culinary tradition. Visiting Emily Dickinson’s home in western Massachusetts.These were among the program ideas suggested by a 2005 committee to fill a new three-week January term left open by a 2004 proposal to create one University-wide calendar, a schedule later adopted by Interim University President Derek Bok in 2007 for implementation in the 2009-2010 academic year.But four years later, these opportunities remain unrealized. Instead, the College’s first J-Term next winter will feature limited housing for select individuals, encouraging students to explore off-campus options...
...multi-billion dollar budget, leadership on the Undergraduate Council perhaps offers at least an equally compelling proof of Neustadt’s thesis.Persuasiveness was a trait clearly prized by last year’s UC leader Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a habitual social networker among undergraduates, faculty, and administrators.But for Andrea R. Flores ’10, who succeeded Sundquist as the UC’s executive last semester, that power appears to have come far less easily—both in University Hall and on the Council.It’s partly personality.Sundquist was a social...
...While the final scale and impact of job reductions remain to be seen, concerns are growing among students, who cite on-campus jobs as a critical means of fulfilling student contribution requirements for tuition...
Commencement keynote speaker Steven Chu will be among the 10 recipients of honorary degrees from the University this year, according to a program circulated at a dinner last night for the honorees. He will receive an honorary doctor of science degree...
...before Hamas’ electoral victory in January 2006, the deepened sanction regime and siege subsequently imposed by Israel and the international community, and later intensified in June 2007 when Hamas seized control of Gaza, has all but destroyed the local economy. If there has been a pronounced theme among the many Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals who I have interviewed in the last three years, it was the fear of damage to Gaza’s society and economy so profound that billions of dollars and generations of people would be required to address it—a fear that...