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...Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment.In an interview Monday, Knowles, the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said he was not ready to commit to any changes in policy.“I am probably known as a fiscal conservative, and I like to build on secure foundations,” Knowles said. “But I must first reacquaint myself with where we are in terms of appointments, in terms...
...room for that. If you aren’t serious, you aren’t really good,” he says. Many students decide to take up Ultimate Frisbee in college because, although they want to be active and involved in a team, they do not want to commit themselves to varsity athletics, according to team members. “I think the main draw is that it gives you the same experience without the hassles of playing a varsity sport,” says Marsh, citing the team’s ability to choose its own practice times...
...interview Monday, Knowles, the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said he was not ready to commit to any changes in policy...
...fact, the closer you look at that grand-scale public housing experiment, the more complicated the results. Yes, young people seemed to commit less violent crime in better neighborhoods. But after a couple of years, the young men actually started deteriorating in other ways. They committed significantly more property crimes than the men who had stayed behind, the study found. "The presumption was, you get these kids in a good neighborhood and, by God, they're going to shape up," says Blumstein. "Well, in part they brought their old habits with them. In part they continued to interact with their...
...students who allege they are being discriminated against for being mentally unstable. The U.S. Department of Education last year warned at least a handful of schools that receive federal aid that the Americans with Disabilities Act protects people with mental problems. Several students who were suspended after threatening to commit suicide are in the process of suing their schools; others have been offered settlements before their cases reached the courts. In a sign of just how flummoxed the world of higher education has become over the issue of suicide, United Educators, which insures more than 1,100 colleges and secondary...