Word: commited
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...actually signed letters to commit to do our best to keep our carbon footprint low,” said Steven C. Caton, a social anthropology professor in William James Hall. “The building managers got us into it more...
...also consciously mimics the themes from one of the most famous, and controversial, attack ads in modern political history, the Willie Horton ad. That spot, which was also funded outside a campaign, blamed Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic nominee, for the weekend furlough that allowed a convicted felon to commit another rape. At the time, domestic crime was a major national issue, though it has not registered as a significant concern in public opinion polls during this election cycle...
...Harvard’s heels after the University launched a series of aid increases, Yale Law School and Medical School came up with similar financial aid initiatives this week. A month after Harvard Law School announced that it would eliminate tuition for third-year law students who commit to spending five years in public service, Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 unveiled the school’s own assistance programs for students also planning to enter public service. The four-part initiative will raise the baseline income below which loans are forgiven from...
...Assistant Dean for Public Service Alexa Shabecoff, is greatly exceeded: the average HLS student performs an impressive 400 hours of public service before graduation). And on top of an already-generous loan forgiveness program, HLS just announced an unprecedented initiative to not charge third-year tuition to students who commit to public-service careers. Such measures have encouraged more and more Harvard graduates to use their law degrees to help people who really need legal services, but may not have the cash to pay. The traditional five or six percent of HLS graduates going into public-service...
...Some of that confusion has been cleared up in reaction to Virginia Tech. In Virginia, Governor Tim Kaine signed a law on April 9 that will require courts to forward information about all involuntary mental health commitments to the state's central criminal records database. New laws will also broaden the standard Virginia uses to commit people against their will and increase the monitoring of those receiving outpatient care (as Cho was supposed to do but didn't). And Virginia also now requires that universities notify parents if a dependent child receives treatment at a campus counseling center. "I think...