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...Westerners, there's little else about Punjab U. that seems familiar. Walk around the leafy-green 1,800-acre campus, and you will encounter nothing that resembles frivolous undergraduate behavior. Musical concerts are banned, and men and women are segregated in the dining halls. Many female students attend class wearing headscarves that cover everything but their eyes. This fall, when the university's administrators tried to introduce a program in musicology and performing arts, the campus erupted in protest. "Pakistan is an Islamic country, and our institutions must reflect that," says Umair Idrees, a master's degree student and secretary...
...advising system this year, flanked by a bevy of advising bodies. In addition to counsel from the year-old Student Advisory Board, the dean will receive student input from “community fellows”—representatives of the Peer Advising Fellows (PAF) program who will attend monthly meetings with Rinere’s office, according to an e-mail from the program’s manager, Brooks Lambert-Sluder ’05. There will be one community fellow from each “dorm community”—the largest organizational advising division...
...alone, and newborn child until rescue crews arrived. Paramedics transported the woman and baby to the Cambridge City Hospital shortly before 6 a.m., according to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief James F. Burns. Pellegrini and Reed left from the quad on their bikes in the early morning to attend Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) classes at MIT. Pedaling into Cambridge Commons, they heard loud cries for help from behind and immediately dialed 911, according to the students. They followed the “hysterical” screams and spotted the woman, a 31-year-old black female, propped...
...attend seminars and conferences in the United States anymore. Those are the venues where the velvet revolution is being plotted, don't you know? Heaven forbid a US official, past or present, actually speaks to you at such a conclave (better they speak to the opposition in exile, armed with their irrelevant memories of the 1970s). You might as well come back to Tehran with a bull's eye painted on the back of your headscarf...
...problem is that the approximately 70 House pages are also in school. When Congress is in session during the school year, the pages attend private, junior-level classes each morning at the Library of Congress. In order not to disrupt their studies, Porter's chief of staff, Mike Hesse, suggested the pages' legislative duty be suspended while they finish up the semester at the Library of Congress...