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...trained answer was that I wasn’t ‘trained’ to answer that,” Riley says.But with additional training sessions and a monetary compensation, the developers of the Advising program hoped to amend this problem of authority, rendering its PAFs with something closer to a familial bond—a certain accountability that at the end of the day allows the advisees to be reassured that someone is assigned to look after them.“I think one of the real benefits of compensating the Fellows, that is, recognizing the responsibility...
...take good, and we academize and theorize it. Theology maintains that good is a characteristic that brings us closer to the divine. Anthropology argues that good is a cultural construction. Philosophy views it as an innate force of the universe. Perhaps economics has a better suggestion with its idea that being good to others is nothing more than a selfish ploy to trick them into giving us more utility. Or maybe it’s biology, and good is just an evolved mechanism to help us preserve our genes into eternity...
Anyone who scoffs at the idea of the world needing good and considers it to be a naïve conviction of idealists should take a closer look at our world. Twenty-three days ago, a car bombing in Tal Afar, Iraq killed 152 people. Last October, a man took eleven girls hostage in an Amish school in Pennsylvania and executed five before taking his own life. The examples are countless. People are not good to each other. Five thousand years of violence have shown the consequences when people fail to be good to each other...
Outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol said Harvard’s numbers have “bounced back” from a plunge after Sept. 11, but that increase was hampered by students’ attraction to schools closer to home, as institutions outside of the U.S. have upped their recruiting efforts...
...bring the score to 6-3. But the second-year fireballer’s next trio of pitches erased any doubt. Power-hitting Princeton catcher Jack Murphy stepped up to the plate, and Cole reared back and retired Murphy on three consecutive strikes to begin his transformation into a closer...