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...Addressing faculty, staff, and student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, Smith proposed a shift from piecemeal budget cuts to sweeping changes in FAS structure to close a larger-than-expected budgetary...
...staffers have accepted the early retirement incentive package, yielding a participation rate of about 30 percent—double that of a similar program recently conducted at Dartmouth. In the next few days, the administration will begin to analyze the savings of the program, which drew to a close Monday, according to Smith...
...practice is quickly gaining popularity. There are now close to 50 schools of yoga offering yoga-therapy training in the U.S. And the International Association of Yoga Therapists has more than tripled its membership from 2003 to 2009, to about 2,500 members. "Now we have more licensed health-care providers, including psychologists, coming in who are interested in using yoga in their work," says Kelly McGonigal, the editor in chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy...
...often find your students distracted by how good looking you are? All the time. Most of my students close their eyes during class to avoid being distracted by my ridiculously good looks. I'm still trying to work out why they make the snoring noises though...
...problem? Well, for one thing, Harvard students are unhappy. Student satisfaction ranks near the bottom of a group of elite colleges, and a lack of social life is identified as one of the major problems. A close friend—atypical at Harvard in that she has always been popular and is thus possibly more affected by the lack of social interactions—recently told me that she viewed her university experience as a reason to “be strong and just get through time...