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...open about where he stood,” said Sundquist, who as vice president signed a lengthy—and unusually personal—missive attacking Pilbeam for his decision on alcohol grants last fall. “Being a transitional dean is a really hard job to begin with. You inherit a lot of things that some people expect you to deal with.”Evelynn M. Hammonds replaced Pilbeam on June 1, stepping down from her position as senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. Upon hearing news of the appointment, Pilbeam said only that...
...don’t feel hindered by the fact that I was not a student in the College,” Hammonds wrote in an e-mail. “Now I see my role as being a student of the College as I begin to learn more about the infrastructure that supports the College...
...Every morning, Harris gets up at 4:50 a.m., goes to the Cabot House gym at 5:50 to weight-lift and use an arc trainer, takes his daughter’s two-year-old dog Tikvah for a walk at 6:50, and returns home to actually begin...
Nice Harvard degree, so how much are you worth? Whether or not you’re booked on the next Greyhound south to begin your finance career, that figure may be higher than you think once you consider the value of your unique biology. “Human commodification” is a nebulous term which has peppered debates on everything from prostitution to genome patenting to selling your “soul” on Ebay; but what remains undeniably clear is that markets in “personal” goods will always exist and continue to mature...
...Modifying the pass/fail option this way would not mean allowing students to hand-pick the grades on their transcript. First of all, it would not change the fact that a student must get permission to take a class pass/fail to begin with. Second, students would not know their grades when making their final grading choice, as the deadline would still be before final papers and exams. And last, such a change would not imply that the reverse could be done—students would not (and should not) be allowed to change a letter-graded class to pass/fail...