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More recently, the Internet has helped connect curiosity seekers with BDSM organizations. Doc and Surri, for instance, help lead a North Carolina group that started less than a year ago but already has nearly 700 people on its e-mail list. The calendar of BDSM social events now includes gatherings for every imaginable subgroup--everything from the International Deaf Leather Contest (scheduled in Dallas in August) to the Black Rose convention in the Washington area, a yearly weekend of workshops and parties that draws...
...term, as happens in the Spring. However, the latest proposal to come from the Curricular Review Committee would change our January dramatically, changing it instead into a frenzied month of intense coursework that neither students nor professors would want. The “4-1-4” calendar, or “J-Term,” would add a special one-month-long course into the Harvard curriculum before the start of the Spring Term; it could conceivably also be used for outside research projects, such as senior theses, or travel, but the details of its structure...
...even if the calendar were rearranged to allow for finals before winter break in an effort to simplify student life, as now seems likely, a J-Term would only counteract any benefit by heaping on the additional stress—for both students and instructors—of planning for and taking additional classes. For most students, managing eight classes is hard enough; adding a ninth class in a 4-1-4 schedule would be too much. If the J-Term were structured so as to allow for the opportunity to do research or to study abroad, it would provide...
Stolper added that while she and Wright would probably not be allowed to vote on the official calendar changes, she thought their input into the committee would nevertheless be influential...
According to Stolper and Wright, changes to the academic calendar could be implemented as earlier as the 2005-2006 school year...