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...University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote on Friday night that he would “promptly” begin a search for Kirby’s successor. Summers is expected to consider current and former department chairs, deans within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and other prominent professors...
...president wrote that Kirby, a scholar of Chinese history and culture, will become director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this summer. The search for Kirby’s replacement as dean will begin immediately, Summers wrote. (See story here...
...days corporate honchos will begin arriving en masse in Junket City - this year, that?s Detroit - for the Superbowl, a championship football game that many of those seated in the luxury boxes won?t even bother to watch. Why should they? Let's be honest - this shindig is all about the parties and perks. The only scores that matter is the Scores with topless dancers and cocktails not far from Ford Field. But this year corporate card-carrying spendthrifts had better be careful. The expense-account cops are out in force - or so we?re told - and business entertaining...
...recommendations of the HCCR cannot faithfully be implemented until CGE’s are fully formed and ready to deploy. To hasten this process, the “Gang of Five,” or whoever chooses to be in charge, can begin by making CGE’s unambiguously central to general education. In a pedagogy which celebrates student choice, this means they must be incentivized. If students take a year-long CGE, it should count for a full distribution requirement—the equivalent of three courses, not just two. Students won’t really be cheating...
...EIWA Championship in each of the past four years, proved a daunting opponent, and the Crimson did not help its own chances when it had to forfeit matches in the first two weight classes. Meltzer (No. 12) defeated Matt Ennis of Lehigh in a 7-5 decision to begin the day. But in the following four bouts, the Mountain Hawks notched two major decisions against freshman Andrew Flanagan (157 lbs.) and sophomore Joseph Bechtold (174 lbs.), and also took two decision wins against sophomore Bobby Latessa (149 lbs.) and tri-captain Mike Baria (165 lbs.), en route to building...