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...Another mistake, common in student government elections, was the preponderance of outrageous promises. For instance, one candidate promised to clean up the “smelly Science Center fountain,” stop the “annoying bells” from ringing, and install swingsets in the Yard. Although many undergraduates might not object to these changes, as campaign promises they are meaningless, given the UC’s lack of say in such matters. How can the UC expect to be taken seriously if its ranks are determined by these arbitrary criteria...
...Koenigs says handing out flyers and holding up signs outside the Science Center, which his opponents began doing last Monday, will not win over students...
...Among the immediate, concrete changes Flores and McLeod aim to enact are funding Beverage Authorization Teams to police events that provide alcohol and renting out the Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Brattle Street as a venue for students to hold parties and other social events...
...University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies on Friday. Throughout the day, Hoffmann’s former students and colleagues hailed him as the kind of professor who has perpetually prioritized teaching undergraduates above his research. Since 1955, Hoffmann has taught in Harvard’s government department and advised numerous now-prominent professors...
...also from person to person to person,” said political scientist James H. Fowler ’92, a professor at the University of California, San Diego and one of the paper’s authors. The study suggests that the happiest people are those at the center of a social network, Fowler said, comparing this contagion of emotions to catching a sexually transmitted infection. “For example, in a network of sexual partners, if you have many partners and your partners have many partners, you are more susceptible to catching...