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Many Harvard professors said that college curricula need renewal every generation. Menand explained that over time, as small modifications accumulate, the Faculty loses track of the overall objectives of the curriculum. That is when it is time to begin anew...
Though I am proud to be Chinese, I fundamentally disagree with the way in which these organizations responded to the messages left at the party. The rally was a symbolic and reactionary gesture that did not begin to address the underlying, Harvard-specific issues that may have incited these incendiary comments in the first place. Though it may have raised some awareness about issues of discrimination and intolerance, the blanket statement it issued against racism was so uncontroversial as to be ineffectual—in the end, the rally was just action for action’s sake...
...rally was a good opportunity for students and student leaders to unite. Now comes the time for the real efforts in fighting discrimination to begin...
...Worse, the drug does not do its work indiscriminately. Modafinil binds to the same site on dopamine transporters as cocaine does, and one of the areas where dopamine levels then begin to climb is the nucleus accumbens - a spot researchers have come to recognize as a sort of addiction central for recreational meds. "The nucleus accumbens," Volkow and Fowler wrote, is a "brain region critical for the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse...
...course, P-I subscribers will automatically begin receiving its longtime rival paper, the Seattle Times on Wednesday. But even that consolation may not last long. "It's not a certainty that the P-I's departure will allow the Times to continue, much less flourish," says Richman, the business reporter. For example, as many as 20,000 of the P-I's 117,000 subscribers already received both papers. Local economists say the Times' own position is dire, pointing to its two-year pension freeze and the laying off of roughly a quarter of its staff in the past year...