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Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English concentrator in Eliot House. Her column, “Petri Dishes,” resumes its attempt to shed light on university culture and its absurdities on alternate Fridays. She hopes this semester will bring new discoveries, possibly even penicillin...
...secretaries were charged with being dragons to keep away students—and that’s not the world we live in, or want to live in, now,” said Economics Department Chair John Y. Campbell. The new LEAP initiative is “a small attempt to blast open the walls of Littauer and reduce the sense that it is a prison,” said Economics Professor Claudia Goldin, whose broader renovation plans for Littauer were stymied when the Fine Arts Library was relocated to the building’s ground level last year...
...college’s courses of academic study. Aside from the much-publicized overhaul of the Core Curriculum in favor of the new Program in General Education, this school year marks the first full year of a revamped English curriculum. While the changes to the English program attempt to facilitate more productive interactions between students and their course material, some concentrators feel that the modifications to the advising system have need for improvement.First introduced this past spring, the English department has entirely remodeled its course options and its approach to advising. Presently, concentrators can decide to keep their sophomore tutorial...
...Sadly, probably not. Those campaigners who were among the loudest in calling for the resignation of the police commissioner, Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali, fear that his dismissal is merely an attempt by the government to paper over the problems that have plagued the police force for years. They say it may be part of a conspiracy to pre-empt demands for more radical reform that are expected to emerge in the coming days. (Read "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...
...attempt to divert attention," Sam Mohochi, executive director of the Independent Medico-Legal Unit, a human-rights watchdog, says of the firing of Ali and several other police officers. "The latest task force on police reforms has yet to compile its report, so it's like stealing the thunder and pre-empting far-reaching reforms that might be promised. To us it's a political tactic...