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...that the Committee on General Education recommends that members of the class of 2012 continue under the Core. With the debut of a slate of Gen Ed offerings, this advice to freshman is essentially a vote of no confidence in the brand new program. Attempts to ease the transitional burden further highlight the lack of a substantive difference between the two programs. When every Gen Ed course either counts for Core credit or is a literal recasting of a former Core course, it becomes clear that both curricula are so watered-down that tangible and substantive differences between...
...really got into the action.” Indeed, reminiscent of the stellar crop of newcomers in 2007, rookies Mike Katzer and Luka Babic made a strong showing for this year’s recruiting class, netting one and two goals, respectively. Junior goalie Nikhil Balaraman also shared the burden in goal, getting the start but yielding in the fourth quarter to freshman Alexandre Popp after making six saves. The rookie held W&J to four goals in the final frame, after the game was well in hand. —Staff writer Max Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...relatively simple measure of getting a vaccine to help prevent it in women. If more men are immune to HPV, fewer women will contract it. If a vaccine for a serious disease only affecting men were discovered, women would have a reciprocal obligation to help eradicate it. The burden should be on both partners to decrease any health risks.Though men are not at as high a risk of developing cancer from contracting HPV, getting the vaccine would still be beneficial for them. HPV may not usually be dangerous or life threatening for men, but it is still an infection?...
...Contrary to the claims of the so-called “fat acceptance” movement, obesity has a real impact on the American economy and creates a large public burden for the entire country. Obesity cuts into the American labor force’s productivity—Californians with a BMI greater than 40 took twelve times as many days off as their thinner counterparts in 2005. It also creates a large economic burden on all of American society—a recent study demonstrated that almost 10 percent of all medical expenditures can be directly attributed to obesity...
...Nearly 50 years ago, in The Burden of Southern History, the historian C. Vann Woodward argued that the South was profoundly different from the rest of America because it was the only part of the country that had lost a war: "Southern history, unlike American ... includes not only an overwhelming military defeat but long decades of defeat in the provinces of economic, social and political life." Woodward believed that this heritage led Southerners to be more obsessed with the past than other Americans were - at its worst, in popular works like Gone With the Wind, there was a gagging nostalgia...