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...A.P.U., professors invoke religion not just in required theology courses, but in biology and English as well. Carole Lambert, an English professor and Fulbright scholar who came to A.P.U. from the University of California, Berkeley, says she introduces spirituality into classroom discussions, telling her students when reading books about war, for example, that she is a pacifist because of how she interprets the Scriptures. Professors at A.P.U. must sign a pledge affirming that they "believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative word of God" to work at the college, a requirement gladly accepted by the faculty...
With help from the 80,000 activists in Mumbai this week, the combined boycotts could get the international support they need to be effective against transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola. Coke contracts have come under fire at Columbia, NYU, University of Vermont and University of California, Berkeley to name a few, and contracts have already been terminated at Bard College, Lake Forest College and at bars and colleges in Ireland. So far, Harvard’s involvement has been limited to bringing Colombian workers to campus to speak about the repression but Madeleine S. Elfenbein...
...short term. “The [college student] age group is one of the most important markets to beverage companies, because whatever habits you form now aren’t likely to change in the future,” Harvard University Dining Services spokesperson Alexandra McNitt said. At UC Berkeley alone Coke pays $1 million per year for exclusive vending rights on campus. McNitt said she couldn’t reveal any specifics about the contract Harvard has with Coke for dining halls, but if Berkeley is any indication, Coke is willing to pay for a captive college audience...
...don’t think the residents should be shy about what they want,” said Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association and a member of the city’s Allston-Harvard Task Force...
...couple are on a path to dysfunction. Now when Gottman wires up therapy clients and videotapes them, "in the first three minutes of the conflict discussion," he says, "we can predict if a couple is going to divorce." He and research partner Robert Levenson of the University of California, Berkeley, found that during arguments, couples in stable relationships have five times as many positive factors present as negative ones. "In relationships that were working, even during conflict, there was a rich climate of positive things, such as love, affection, interest in one another, humor and support. Couples in unstable unions...