Word: behavior
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Citing several examples, including “the unfortunate incident” with Cornel R. West ’74 and Summers’ remarks on women in science, Harper wrote that he saw a “pattern” in the president’s behavior...
...obvious and unfortunate consequences for life on campus. More troubling, however, is what our college experience is teaching us about our relationship to institutions on the whole, particularly when institutional decision-making doesn’t affect the narrow sphere of our activities. If the college years truly predict behavior later in life, then our current habit of abdicating our responsibility to discuss and engage in issues that are bigger than ourselves sets the stage for a future of disassociation from democratic society. Incidentally, the signs are beginning to appear already. We of the DotNet generation are more involved...
...We’ve gotten lazy on the Faculty Council and we’ve not taken on our responsibility,” Faculty Council member and Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn says of Council members’ behavior prior to the past year. “We have to become more involved, more active, and more responsible...
...forget” to check my mail; if my laptop’s charger isn’t nearby, that’s often reason enough to take a stroll instead of peruse my inbox. And while I’m often embarrassed by my errant behavior, as it has become the enduring joke from my friends, there are times where by foolishnesses has become my escape. Irresponsibility has allowed me to disconnect, and I am all the more happy for it. It’s difficult to imagine life at Harvard without the Internet, cell phones, e-mail, instant...
...significantly leveled,” Goldin and Katz write.But on that ever-more-level playing field, women aren’t just matching men—they’re beating them. Goldin and Katz attribute this to the fact that boys are more likely than girls to have behavioral problems.The much higher rate of disciplinary and behavior problems for males and the far lower amount of time they spend on homework can explain almost the entire female advantage in college attendance for the high school class of 1992, adjusting for family background, test scores, and high-school achievement, according...