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This piece of paper constitutes the bulk of efforts by Gilbert, who serves as chair of the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, to prevent errors or fraud in research. Some professors say the two-page sheet represents a greater effort to head off fraud than many of their colleagues ever attempt...
While the bulk of published research has indeed found some correlation between watching fictitious violence and behaving aggressively, the correlation is statistically quite modest; most of the observed "aggressiveness" is bratty boisterousness, not violence. And causality -- he sees Walker, Texas Ranger and therefore seriously hurts someone -- is nowhere convincingly demonstrable. Even Brandon Centerwall, a prominent anti- TV researcher at the University of Washington, figures that watching TV increases kids' average level of physical aggressiveness only...
Such a plan costs a lot, and the department has already had to make some staff cuts. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences doesn't have money to burn. Knowles has already asked the Faculty to tighten their belts, reduce photo-copying and buy in bulk. It probably doesn't have a million dollars for a women's athletics program...
...launched an ideological campaign based on strident nationalism. His forces dropped all references to building a communist state. Villagers in Khmer Rouge zones were encouraged to cultivate their own plots and raise their own livestock, an approach designed to appeal to the 6 million subsistence farmers who form the bulk of Cambodia's 9 million inhabitants. During the early years of Pol Pot's reign, they suffered far less than urbanites, who were sent to work under harsh conditions in the fields, where they died by the thousands...
Without more information, it's very difficult to defend the rest of Epps' record, including the bulk of the AAA's concerns about his failure to open doors to students as race relations czar...