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...Some are probably scared that if they don’t go to Yale, they will end up at some wilderness academy in central New Jersey. Some undoubtedly never intended to go to Yale but during high school recklessly experimented with strong opiates. Some are the result of their communities?? failure not to teach the consequences of Yale from an early...
...science” and argue that scientists will have to wade through a hundred worthless papers to find only one Nobel Prize-winning gem. They also claim that rogue scientists could praise and criticize research in an unfair, un-objective way. But copious empirical evidence indicates that open online communities??including those dedicated to scientific research—have an incredible capacity to self-regulate.Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman’s recent online publication of a proof of the Poincaré conjecture—a century-old question of fundamental importance in topology, the solution to which won Perelman...
...own.This summer, Christopher Saheed was named acting principal of Cambridge’s only public high school for the 2006-2007 school year, following a secretive search process. Saheed, who previously served as the dean of curriculum and programs for one of the high school’s learning communities??subdivisions of the student population intended to provide a more intimate environment—is the fourth principal to serve at the school’s helm in the last seven school years. But high turnover isn’t the only problem that has plagued CRLS?...
...well-meaning Community-seekers should cease in their efforts to subvert them. At best—as is now the case—house communities are ineffective; at worst, they undermine the naturally occurring activity-based communities on campus.Incoming freshmen would do well to branch out from their entryway communities??dictated by the College—and avoid extensive involvement in background-based groups. The most interesting and diverse communities to be found at Harvard are defined by what the people in them do, not where they come from, nor where they live on campus. These groups, more...
...someone of whom a colleague once said, “She’s a very divisive person. Wherever she has been there’s always been conflict.”That paradox—one where Skocpol has both stood inside and outside University circles and scholarly communities??began 25 years ago. Denied tenure from the Sociology Department in 1980, the Harvard-trained sociologist and political scientist filed a grievance against the University for sexual discrimination. But five years later, Skocpol agreed to return as a tenured professor to the same department that she had accused...